PLATH & HUGHES CRITICS Flashcards
1
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Armitage on Hughes
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Shaman flight into the spirit world
2
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Arthur Oberg on Bday Present
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syntax has a “volitional strategy” with “would” and “let us” contemplating suicide her will to reach “toward some state beyond love”
3
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George Steiner on Plath
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“translating private hurt into a code of instantaneous public images which concern us all”
4
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Elaine Feinstein on Plath
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an invention rather than confession
5
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Terry Gifford on Hughes
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the shock of the otherness of natural forces outside and inside ourselves
6
Q
Judith Kroll
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chapters in a mythology
7
Q
Karen Ford
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“the desire to transform form the human to the vegetable reveals a longing to escae sexual oppression”
8
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Susan van Dyne
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self-transformation is manifest in her use of complete sentences midway through poem,
