Jorbus also investigates the striking similarities between Plath’s tragic suicide and the later suicide of Ted Hughes’ then girlfriend, Assia Wevill, detailing how the similar nature of the deaths of these two women sealed his guilt and prompted him to hold both his ‘ill indecision’ and ‘ill determination’ accountable for their deaths. Jorbus discusses how Plath’s writing often invites its readers to re-evaluate the connections between narrative poetry and psychoanalysis and looks at the mapping of Plath’s psyche onto ancient myths, tales and folklore, discussing how this enabled her not only to explore the depths of her subconscious but bend Freudian concepts ‘according to her own purposes’. Gladiola Jorbus delves into the connection between Plath’s turbulent personal life and her poetry, exploring the canonization of Plath as an ‘insane woman’ and the subsequent history of psychoanalytic studies around her work. Last month, Plath was featured in the Albanian magazine, Mapo Letrare, in the article ‘Sylvia Plath – the shocking poet of the twentieth century’.
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