Plath Location Essay
Sylvia Plath Landscape Poem.
Sylvia Plath was a poet who had a tendency to write a number of poems all with a common theme flowing through each; these works are often read and reviewed as collections. In doing so the depth and meaning behind each poem is illuminated and becomes stronger as the themes and linked imagery develop throughout the collections. Plath uses objective correlative and portrays her emotions onto the landscape to illustrate her fragile mindset and disturbing thoughts concerning the fine line between wanting to live and wanting to die in one particular collection of poems. She also uses them to great effect in showing her longing to escape from the confines of her troubled mind. Three Plath poems in which these ideas are prominent are “Two Campers in Cloud Country”, “Wuthering Heights” and “Blackberrying”. All of which contain landscapes and/or plants and animals which she sees as influencing or reflecting her thoughts and feelings and the decisions she makes because of them.
Before and After the birth of he first child Plath endured a phase in which she wrote little to no poetry, the poem “Two Campers in Cloud Country” is one of the first poems she wrote after this period ended, this resulted in an evident lack of intensity and immediacy to the poem that is affiliated and praised so highly in Plath’s work. “Two Campers in Cloud Country” describes a trip taken to Rock Lake in Canada, however the trip was not fresh in Plath’s mind when she wrote it as it had been almost a year since the trip itself, this time lapse may also have contributed the lack of strength and depth in the poem, this is why compared to other works of Plath this poem is considered to be one of her weakest pieces of writing.
The main theme of nature being superior to mankind links these three poems together is first introduced in “Two Campers in Cloud Country”, however in this poem, even though Plath acknowledges and accepts that the natural world is superior to
Sylvia Plath was a poet who had a tendency to write a number of poems all with a common theme flowing through each; these works are often read and reviewed as collections. In doing so the depth and meaning behind each poem is illuminated and becomes stronger as the themes and linked imagery develop throughout the collections. Plath uses objective correlative and portrays her emotions onto the landscape to illustrate her fragile mindset and disturbing thoughts concerning the fine line between wanting to live and wanting to die in one particular collection of poems. She also uses them to great effect in showing her longing to escape from the confines of her troubled mind. Three Plath poems in which these ideas are prominent are “Two Campers in Cloud Country”, “Wuthering Heights” and “Blackberrying”. All of which contain landscapes and/or plants and animals which she sees as influencing or reflecting her thoughts and feelings and the decisions she makes because of them.
Before and After the birth of he first child Plath endured a phase in which she wrote little to no poetry, the poem “Two Campers in Cloud Country” is one of the first poems she wrote after this period ended, this resulted in an evident lack of intensity and immediacy to the poem that is affiliated and praised so highly in Plath’s work. “Two Campers in Cloud Country” describes a trip taken to Rock Lake in Canada, however the trip was not fresh in Plath’s mind when she wrote it as it had been almost a year since the trip itself, this time lapse may also have contributed the lack of strength and depth in the poem, this is why compared to other works of Plath this poem is considered to be one of her weakest pieces of writing.
The main theme of nature being superior to mankind links these three poems together is first introduced in “Two Campers in Cloud Country”, however in this poem, even though Plath acknowledges and accepts that the natural world is superior to