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Sylvia Plath
Her mature poems display a deeply personal, lyrical-dramatic mode
Use of a strongly rhythmical form of free verse
An unpredictable metre
Every theme as a complex contradictory experience
Prevalence of the three-line stanza, consisting of either long or short lines.
Symbols
Choice of words with disquieting connotations
Contrast between life and death and death in life veined with anguish
Crisis of existence stemming from the loss of identity
Dissolution of the self
The experience of the family who may be destructive
Memory as the weight of past experiences
Confessional poetry
Conflict between reality and imagination
Horror and humour
Vulnerability
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