Sylvia Plath - Critical Analysis

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AS level English (Sylvia Plath's poetry/The Help) Flashcards on Sylvia Plath - Critical Analysis, created by Daisy Lovick on 16/04/2018.
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"The Marilyn Monroe of modern literature" - Carl Rollyson Feminism Womanhood Death Modern relationships
"a raving avenger of womanhood and innocence" - Thomas McClanahan Feminism Civil Rights Writers and Writing
"an explosively liberated poetic voice" - Frieda Hughes Feminism Liberation from restraints Writers and writing
"a portrait of marriage in contemporary Western culture" - Pamela J Annas Feminism Society
"the woman is the role she plays; she does not exist apart from it" - Pamela J Annas women marriage society
"I believe [poetry] should be relevant to larger things like Hiroshima and Dachau" - Sylvia Plath impact of wars writers and writing
"the speaker's own psychic oppression is represented in the more general symbol of the Nazi oppression of the Jews" G. A. Nance and J.P Jones
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