I am the arrow: a construção do Eu poético de Sylvia Plath

Abstract

Sylvia Plath was a 20th-century American writer associated with what came to be called confessional poetry, alongside great names such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman. Such poetry is characterized by being personal and autobiographical, often moving between the real and the fantastical, in a kind of “outpouring of self”. The objective of this work is to investigate how this relationship between the poet and lyrical poetry is established, based on the exploration of the figure of the “I” and its various possibilities presented in her poems. To deal with this problem, we mainly use the contributions of Jackson and Prins (2014); Culler (1999; 2015); West (1993); Brunhara (2017); Ragusa (2021; 2011; 2005); and Genette (1987). The theoretical framework was chosen in order to analyze the values and relevance of Sylvia Plath's poetic choices through the construction of a panorama of what one may term as lyrical and its known origins.