BUSINESS CRITICAL READING AND THINKING | Text Response

Introduction :

1.      Love, attachment and effacement : Romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems.

2.      Children poems works by Sylvia Plath

3.      Sylvia Plath, Frieda, Daniel Stern, Anthony Giddens, Susan Bassnett, Aneesh Barai, Chiasson, and Lucy Tunstall

Body :

1.      The journal explain about children poems that written by Sylvia Plath. There are some analysis who analyze her works and in this journal focus on the ways in which Plath engages in the poetics of romantic love.

2.      A poem is a collection of spoken or written words that expresses ideas or emotions in a powerfully vivid and imaginative style. A poem is comprised of a particular rhythmic and metrical pattern.

3.      A figure of speech is a phrase or word having different meanings than its literal meanings. It conveys meaning by identifying or comparing one thing to another, which has connotation or meaning familiar to the audience. That is why it is helpful in creating vivid rhetorical effect. In Sylvia Plath poems she use figure of speech such as :

-          In “Child”, she writes: “Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing. / I want to fill it with color and ducks”.

Which further enhances analogies between maternal and romantic love.

-          In “Kindness,” she simply states: “You [Kindness] hand me two children, two roses.”

4.      Sylvia Plath is one of person who can make a sentence become wonderful and beautiful. All of poems which has been analyzed in this journal show me as a reader that Plath very loving her son as a mother.

Conclusion :

1.      In her children poems, Sylvia Plath extensively engages in the poetics of romantic love. profusion of romantic tropes allows one for a less reductionist approach to Plath, both as a poet and as a mother, and for a revision of the customary separation of children love and romantic love, as exemplified in the writings of Giddens and Stern.

2.      In my opinion this journal have quite clear analyze Sylvia Plath’s poems. The explanation is light and easy to understand. From this journal I learn that with use figure of speech like what Plath use in her poems, we can make a beautiful poem with it. The poem that we make can be more meaningful with using figure of speech.


Sources: https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/316831/255401