La inquietud metafísica en la poesía de Sylvia Plath / Metaphysical Inflexions in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath
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Este artículo afirma que Sylvia Plath es esencialmente una poetisa visionaria, de factura romántica y surrealista. Su contribución a la poesía del siglo XX, no se puede entender en su verdadera dimensión si no se toman en consideración las categorías míticas que están en la base de su poética y que determinan el efecto catártico de sus trances y transportes visionarios. Los poemas de Plath presentan una gran afinidad con el horizonte del pensamiento mágico-religioso en el que la muerte da paso a una regeneración. Las estructuras míticas vertebran todos los aspectos de su obra, su concepción de la naturaleza, las experiencias específicamente femeninas como la maternidad o los ritos de iniciación.
Palabras clave: Sylvia Plath, poesía norteamericana del s. XX, mito, tradición romántica, visionaria y surrealista.
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This article contends that Sylvia Plath is essentially a visionary poet with strong ties to the Romantic and Surrealist tradition. Her contribution to the development of 20th century poetry cannot be fully understood without taking into consideration the mythical categories which underlie her oeuvre and which determine the cathartic effect of her visionary trances and transports. Plath’s poems are steeped in the magicoreligious horizon of archaic cultures which conceive death as a preliminary step towards a new existence. The mythic structures inform all the aspects of her work from her conception of nature, experiences that define womanhood or the many initiation rites.
Key words: Sylvia Plath, 20th century American poetry, myth, initiation, visionary and surrealistic tradition.
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