Tracking the Thought-Fox: Sylvia Plath's Revision of Ted Hughes

Clark looks at imagery in the later poetry of Sylvia Plath and traces the influence of Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. He concludes that Plath began to forge a poetic voice independent of Hughes in the Ariel poems but succumbed to a sense of dependency and failure in her last poem, "Sheep in...

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Published inJournal of modern literature Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 100 - 112
Main Author Clark, Heather
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bloomington Indiana University 22.12.2005
Indiana University Press
Subjects
American writers
Animals
Authors, American
Authors, English
Authorship
Chariots
Children
Criticism and interpretation
English writers
Horses
Hughes, Ted
Hughes, Ted (1930-1998)
Husbands
Imagery
Influence
Literary criticism
Modernist poetry
Plath, Sylvia
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Poetic themes
Poetry
Poets
Stanzas
Works
Writing
United States
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Summary:Clark looks at imagery in the later poetry of Sylvia Plath and traces the influence of Plath's husband, Ted Hughes. He concludes that Plath began to forge a poetic voice independent of Hughes in the Ariel poems but succumbed to a sense of dependency and failure in her last poem, "Sheep in Fog," with its image of Phaeton's wrecked chariot, an image derived from Hughes's use of Phaeton myth in his poetry.
ISSN:0022-281X
1529-1464
1529-1464
DOI:10.1353/jml.2005.0025