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The article “Sylvia Plath : Fusion with the victim and suicide” is about Sylvia Plath’s life and related her life to the poem that she wrote for better understanding her life. The author of the article has hypothesis that a poet who wrote about and committed suicide, a series of assumption concerning the relationship between the failure of the defense of identification with the aggressor and a tendency toward self-destruction. To support the hypothesis, the author uses some lines or stanzas from Sylvia Plath poem. This article is somewhat hard to understand and take long time to finish reading because sometime I don’t get the same feeling that the author get. However, the article helps me a lot to understand Sylvia Plath life and the reason of her suicide.
“I Bask In Dreams of Suicide: Mental Illness, Poetry, and Women” . The purpose of the article is to explore possible reasons for the high rate of mental illness among female poets. The authors also give some examples of the linkage between creativity and mental illness, especially in the domain of poetry and among female poets. In the article Sylvia Plath is introduced as an example of a female eminent poet who committed suicide.
“Sylvia Plath And The Failure Of Emotional Self-repair Through Poetry” This article is about Sylvia Plath’s life. The author tries to find the reason why Sylvia Plath committed suicide and what effect her decision. In the article introduce two important events that effect Sylvia’s decision. The first event was Sylvia’s mother’s visiting to England possibly stirring up her old fears of her father. And the second event was Sylvia’s husband’s affair with another woman.