LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13:11 November 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

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Sylvia Plath as a Poet: A Critical Observation

Dr. P. K. Debata

Abstract

Literature is only for the passionate. The passionate readers are the wheel of the chariot called literature. On the path of creativity countless writers, critics and painters have come up from their lowly positions to a marvellous height. Sylvia Plath has established herself in the galaxy of literary cosmos with her profound poetic voice and vision. She stands out as a significant figure of modern American poetry. Her talent could be compared to that of the famous poet Keats who also died young. Here I would like to delve deeply into her superb poetic genius which took its birth from the very inception of her school career, as morning shows the day; but, it ultimately had to come to an end in the middle part of her life, leaving an immeasurable contribution to the world of literature.

Keywords:Creativity, Immortal, Manifestation, Plath, View.

The Story of Sylvia

Sylvia was born on 27th Oct, 1932, in Boston Memorial Hospital in the family of a German scholar Otto Emile Plath who was originally a German, but immigrated to the United States when he was sixteen. Otto Plath earned recognition for himself as an eminent scholar in classical languages. He was a professor of biology and German language at Boston University. Aurelia, her mother was a student of the German class taught by Otto Plath. She was younger by twenty one years to Otto Plath, who had divorced his Roman wife earlier. In Winthrop, Sylvia joined a public school which gave her the opportunity of experiencing the learning and exploring of life, but soon misfortune dogged the beauty of the family. She lost her father at the early age of eight and the hard task of bringing up the children was left to a hard working mother.

The death of the father whom she hero-worshipped gave her much pain and sorrow. It was very shocking to her because she had deep affection for her father as well as faith. The feeling of love and the intense suffering due to the absence of the endeared were excellently expressed in her poem, ‘Daddy’. The despair and the retrospection of death made her thoughts revolve much around death, which later led her to suicide.

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Dr. Pradeep Kumar Debata, Hons, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
Head of the Department of English
Kalinga Polytechnic
KIIT
Bhubaneswar 751024
Odisha
India
debatapradeep@yahoo.com
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