Eros in Sylvia Plath`s Selected Poems

Volume 20 , Issue 2 , August 2019 , Pages 377-388

Authors

Ismael Muhamad Fahmi Saeed 1 ; Ranji Shorsh Rauf Muhamad 1

1 Department of English , College of language, University of Salahaddin, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

DOI logo 10.17656/jzsb.10899

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Abstract

This paper is an extract from a PhD dissertation which is entitled “Eros and Thanatos: A Study in
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton”.
Plath’s early poems include those poems which are written by Plath from 1956 to 1961; from the
beginning of her marriage to Ted Hughes until her separation. In this period, which is called the
calm and brighter period, Plath is very pleased with her husband. As she looks at her husband as her
father, during this period she thinks of her father as a great and holy person. In her early poems like
"Full Fathom Five” and "The Colossus" , she uses light and positive imagery to describe her father
and bring him to life again , and she has a little hope. The image of rebirth has its own significance
in this study and we illustrate it in two of her poems. This study discusses Eros in “Full Fathom
Five” and “The Colossus” through the psychoanalytic approach.

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