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1. Sylvia Plath

2. Her mature poems
display a deeply
personal, lyrical-
dramatic mode

3. Use of a strongly
rhythmical form
of free verse

4. An unpredictable
metre

5. Every theme as a
complex
contradictory
experience

6. Prevalence of the
three-line
stanza, consisting
of either long or
short lines.

7. Symbols
Choice of words
with disquieting
connotations

8. Contrast between life
and death and death
in life veined with
anguish

9. Crisis of existence
stemming from the
loss of identity

10. Dissolution of the self
The experience of the
family who may be
destructive

11. Memory as the
weight of past
experiences

12. Confessional poetry
Conflict between
reality and
imagination

13. Horror and humour
Vulnerability
Double