Plath & Hughes Flashcards
Thesis
Composers utilise (KEYWORD) in texts to convey (KEYWORD) as shaped by contextual concerns, provoking responsive texts to initiate a dialogue and develop or dissonantly question the values present in the hypotext, ultimately inducing responders to consider their own values and assumptions. Sylvia Plath’s suite of poetry conveys (keyword) of catharsis and liberation from contexts of societal patriarchal domination over both women’s agency and of her psyche due to paternal trauma, acting as a hypotextual platform for Ted Hughes’ reframing to reveal resonances in their shared intention to achieve liberation from their contexts but deep dissonances in their method of achieving liberation.
Daddy + The Shot: Quotes
“But they pulled me out of the sack, And they stuck me together with glue” – disjunction, metaphor, exclusive language
“You were undeflected You were gold-jacketed, solid silver, Nickel-tipped. Trajectory perfect…” – short syntax + asyndeton, symbolism subverted, enjambment
Fever + Fever 103*: Quotes
“I think I am going up, I think I may rise - …I am pure acetylene Virgin attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these things mean!” double religious allusion subverted through self proclamation and exclamation mark
“Then the blank thought of anaesthesia that helps creatures under the polar ice…that brings baffled planarian worms to a standstill where they curl up and die” symbolism, analogy
