I Bask in the Dreams of Suicide: Mental Illness, Poetry, and Women
The article talks about how female poets are more affected and prone to mental illnesses than male poets or other kind of artists, such as visual artists or prose writers. It has a very generalized analysis of the data, taking different types of experiments and just fitting them in to the topic of the paper. It is also very repetitive in its data and I find it very generalized. The article does not seem to have substantial data to prove its point. The article's beginning is also very negative, as to me, I did not want to read it anymore because of its pessimistic tone. Furthermore, it states that female poets tend to have the "Sylvia Plath" effect because poets start off as mentally unstable and it worsens when the poetry does not help them resolve their mental or emotional problems. It stated that although writing can be helpful for people to let go of emotions or deal with situations, it is unclear how valuable and helpful poetry is due to the statistics of female poets developing mental issues and their suicide rate.
Sylvia Plath and the Failure of Emotional Self-Repair
In this article, three dualities were listed by the author:
1. balance between creative individual's use of the audience to serve her own narcissistic interests
2. balance between destructive and constructive activity
3. interplay between pretense and fantasy.
The article talks about how Plath realized that poetry was self-destructing for her, yet she still kept writing poems. Some themes that were major themes of Plath's poems were her father's sudden death, and about suicide and pain as well.
Sylvia Plath: Fusion of the victim and suicide
According to the author, Sylvia Plath was able to use poetry to resolve some of her emotional and mental issues but it states that the poems would backfire and haunt her again, which it did. It also stated that if the poems are read in order (i.e. chronologically), it shows how Plath is forcing against death but towards the end of her life, the poems forces against death and suicide weaken, which shows her weakened stability of mind and her attraction towards suicide.
The article talks about how female poets are more affected and prone to mental illnesses than male poets or other kind of artists, such as visual artists or prose writers. It has a very generalized analysis of the data, taking different types of experiments and just fitting them in to the topic of the paper. It is also very repetitive in its data and I find it very generalized. The article does not seem to have substantial data to prove its point. The article's beginning is also very negative, as to me, I did not want to read it anymore because of its pessimistic tone. Furthermore, it states that female poets tend to have the "Sylvia Plath" effect because poets start off as mentally unstable and it worsens when the poetry does not help them resolve their mental or emotional problems. It stated that although writing can be helpful for people to let go of emotions or deal with situations, it is unclear how valuable and helpful poetry is due to the statistics of female poets developing mental issues and their suicide rate.
Sylvia Plath and the Failure of Emotional Self-Repair
In this article, three dualities were listed by the author:
1. balance between creative individual's use of the audience to serve her own narcissistic interests
2. balance between destructive and constructive activity
3. interplay between pretense and fantasy.
The article talks about how Plath realized that poetry was self-destructing for her, yet she still kept writing poems. Some themes that were major themes of Plath's poems were her father's sudden death, and about suicide and pain as well.
Sylvia Plath: Fusion of the victim and suicide
According to the author, Sylvia Plath was able to use poetry to resolve some of her emotional and mental issues but it states that the poems would backfire and haunt her again, which it did. It also stated that if the poems are read in order (i.e. chronologically), it shows how Plath is forcing against death but towards the end of her life, the poems forces against death and suicide weaken, which shows her weakened stability of mind and her attraction towards suicide.
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