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ERIC Number: EJ1201187
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1578-7044
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Plath's Spanish Poems and Tropes: Turning Landscape into Mindscape
Garrido, María Luisa Pascual
International Journal of English Studies, v18 n2 p1-17 2018
Although critical attention has focused on Ariel, Sylvia Plath's earlier poems are also worth examining since they reveal significant details concerning the writer's evolution towards that final achievement. After getting married in June 1956, Plath and Hughes travelled to Spain and settled in Benidorm for their honeymoon. It is the poems derived from that period and Plath's response to the alien setting that are analyzed in this paper. The corpus of "Spanish poems" and its most salient motifs will be identified and examined to assess the emotional and artistic response of Plath's encounter with Spain in her work. A rhetorical analysis of these poems will be carried out but biographical data from Plath's journals, correspondence and prose will also be considered. Finally, two later poems will be examined to demonstrate that Spain left its imprint in Plath's mind, supplying suggestive imagery which turned the Spanish landscape into a violent mindscape.
University of Murcia. Department of English Philology Merced Campus, Calle Santo Cristo 1, Murcia 30071 Spain. Tel: +34-868-88-3406; Fax: +34-868-88-3409; e-mail: publicaciones@um.es; Web site: http://www.um.es/ijes
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain
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