From Reappearance To Interference

The thesis concentrates on the research on the autobiographic quality of the confessional poetry of Sylvia Plath, who was an important poet of the important poetry school, the confessional poetry school, in the 20^th century in America. The research mainly tries to illustrate the relationship among the poet's subject, the poet's life and the poetry text. And the relationship just shows: Plath's poetry is not autobiographic, but has distinct autobiographic quality, and the autobiographic quality appears to have three levels: reappearance, expression and interference.In this thesis, Chapter One discusses that poetry is the reappearance of life and looks for some direct mirror relationship between experience and memories of life and poetry so as to prove that life is the base of literature creation. Through the dissection of the subject consciousness strongly displayed by the poet.Chapter Two analyses the poet how to find and express the subject in poetry and through the exploration to the poet's means of artistic expression, such as imagination, fiction, metaphor and symbol, it shows that creation is the result of the poet's consciousness's attendance, has transcended the level of autobiography and becomes the expression of the poet's creating ability.Centering on Plath's suicide, Chapter Three has a close look at the irreconcilable contradiction between "subject consciousness" and "feminine consciousness" existing in the poet herself, and it points out that the various anxiety arising therefrom is the reason for the poet's giving up life. "The anxiety of influence" makes poetry creation require the poet to be close to death and directly causes the poet's final crazy behavior.