美国自白派女诗人西尔维亚·普拉斯创作于生命最后阶段的自白诗,直接袒露了个人经验中痛苦与绝望的极端情绪。这些最能体现自白诗特点的诗,是焦虑的产物。焦虑是其诗歌创作的来源,也在诗歌中具体体现。焦虑亦可分为多个层次:现实的焦虑、神经性焦虑、道德焦虑以及影响的焦虑。诸种焦虑交织、作用,激发了诗人的创造力,使普拉斯的诗歌具有了独特的审美价值。
Sylvia Plath’s poetry of confession, written during the late stage of her life, exhibits the feeling of agony and despair experienced in her everyday life. The essay is built on the belief that her most representative confessional poems are a product of anxiety: anxiety is both the source of poetic creativity and the subject matter of composition. The anxiety in her poetry could be classified into four levels: realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety and the anxiety of influence. Through analyzing the interplay of the four levels of anxiety, the essay intends to explain the origin of her creativity and the aesthetic value of her poetry.
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