Publication: Love, attachment, and effacement : romantic dimensions in Sylvia Plath’s children poems
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Wierzchowska, Justyna
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This article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath
written
in the years 1960
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63, in relation to the
poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies (
Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976;
Winnicott
,
1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens
,
2014
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3
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6), and attachment theory
(Bowlby
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1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition, informed by one’s attachment
history, and realized at different stages of one’s life (Hazan & Shaver
,
1987). It specifically refers to Daniel
Stern’s and Anthony Giddens’s largely
overlapping concepts of maternal and romantic love to argue that Plath’s
children poems are significantly infused with a poetics of romantic love. This poetics, however, becomes
gradually compromised by a poetics of ambivalence, withdrawal, and self
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effac
ement.
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