3 Articles-FK

I Bask In Dreams of Suicide: Mental Illness, Poetry, and Women This article discusses the connection between mental illness and poets. Among poets with mental illness this article also discusses the fact that it is mainly female poets that have mental illness. The article discusses how people that have mental illness tend to express there feelings more then someone else who does not have mental illness. Poetry attracts people who are willing to express there feelings. The fact that people with mental illness tend to express there feelings more regularly may cause them to gravitate to expressing them on paper through poetry. Poetry may also cause writers to become mentally ill because of the fact readers tend to enjoy the work of poets that seem to be emotionally unstable. The article also discusses how women tend to be more emotionally unstable in fields of work such as poetry. All in all this article was discussing the connection between mental illness and those who write poetry. Sylvia Plath And The Failure Of Emotional Self-Repair Through Poetry The author of this article discusses the life of Sylvia Plath and events that could have led to her having unstable mental state. I liked the fact that the author used Sylvia Plath's on journal entries when going through her life. Reading this helped me better understand how the loss of Plath's father really wore her down emotionally. I feel that growing up with no father figure to guide her was a main reason for her being emotionally unstable. The article also discusses how Plath used poetry to channel some of her emotions. It also discusses that being able to express her emotions freely on paper may have led to Plath developing a case of mental illness. As you can see this article was about the events in Plath's life that may have caused her to develop a mental illness. Sylvia Plath: Fusion With The Victim And Suicide This article was about Sylvia Plath's poems and suicide. The author discusses how some of Plath's poems foreshadowed her eventual suicide. I feel that the author tries to connect Plath's suicide with her ability to freely cope with her emotions through poetry. All in all I believe the author was trying to connect Plath's suicide with the actual words of her poems.