Making, Living and Remaking the Myth: Plath and Her Mythical World of Poetry

Chandravali J Talaviya

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6604

Making, Living and Remaking the Myth: Plath and Her Mythical World of Poetry

Author(s)	Chandravali J Talaviya
Country	India
Abstract	Sylvia Plath is a very well-known figure in American and English literature. She is the back of modern literature and the face of postmodern literature, as her works reflect the characteristics of both ages. She is one of the four main members of the Confessional School of Poetry, and most of her works depict the theme of self-obsession. Her poetry is the poetry of “I”, but what makes her poetry different from others is her use of myth in her craft. As she was very fond of dying and death, she has used various myths related to death or can, say, in an altered way. She has done it so artfully that with her subtle usage of myth in her poetry, she has become a myth. The central theme of her poetry, as well as her myth, is, as it is obvious, death and rebirth. As a confessional poet, she has never been interested in the life and death of other people but in her own. Each anthology of hers, chiefly Colossus, and Ariel, discusses the very theme. Many of her poems depict her desperate desire to die. Lady Lazarus, Ariel, Fever 103, and The Manor Garden are chief among them. These poems also depict this theme of morbidity through the subtle use of mythology. In this paper, the researcher is willing to discuss the Sylvian myth in the poem, Lady Lazarus, along with the original myth.
Keywords	Sylvia Plath, myth, dying, myth in literature, Lady Lazarus
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023
Published On	2023-09-17
Cite This	Making, Living and Remaking the Myth: Plath and Her Mythical World of Poetry - Chandravali J Talaviya - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 5, September-October 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6604
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.6604
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gssfnr

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