English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Sylvia Plath, Dramatic Monologue
9 Mar 2016
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They act as a witness to what you"re saying. Something to do with a desire for some element of wrong-doing being witnessed. Not a confession of her wrong-doing, but a confession which simply demands to be witnessed, and to be confirmed. So a confession can be used to be recognized, and for the speaker to be recognized as a person. A poem about suicide, but the speaker does not see it as something wrong. In a dark way seen as a creative act. Consistently makes use of a series of metaphors which are found troubling. She is not jewish, but she represents herself through this. She is showing it for what it is/was. What she is writing about has to do with her own life. But not in the realm of the dramatic monologue. Her poems are the best unhappy poems we have. A poem about what it means to be still alive after you"ve tried to kill yourself.
