A Rare Flower Under Bitter And Astringent Reputation

Confessional Poetry in the USA is very distinctive in the modern poetry, which holds the important status in the worldwide poetry history, and which has had the huge influence on the Chinese contemporary poetry, specially on the Chinese 1980s and 1990s female poetry, even today which is also affecting the Chinese poetic world. Sylvia Plath is the most important poet of the Confessional Poetry, her poetry has manifested the essence of this school of poetry. As a sensitive female poet, she has composed many characteristic poetries with her unique femininity and discourse style. These poetries have the unique esthetics characteristic, and they have become the model of the world modern female poetry, and have been valued more and more by the poetry and academic circles.Plath is the female poet which has the most legendary color in the world feminine poetry history. She has the unique individuality, and always lives in all kinds of resistance and reconciliation of contradictory. The unique life experience has facilitated her unique poetry style, specially the painful individual experience which taking the fervor and the inspiration to her creation. She brews her poetry with her pain, and regards the poetry as the prescription to save herself. So, writing of poetry becomes the survival way of herself. In the poem, she offers her individual experience completely, and creates confessional poetry which has the characteristics of autobiography. She affirms herself and denies herself unceasingly in the male-dominated society, because of the contradictory of role between the puzzles and the chooses, the standard woman and the non-standard woman. Her works indulges in the description of death, finally she has stepped homeward onto the suicide. This tragedy life makes her poems full of the consciousness of confession and introspection, causing her poems to surmount the gentle style of common female poetry and have the difficulty of expressing feelings and the height of thought. This is the important reason why the confessional consciousness become sole characteristic of Confessional Poetry, and it also is important reason why the Confessional Poetry can compares favorably with with the male poem.Entering the outstanding poetess's poetry world, we can find easily she has got great achievements on expanding the poetic theme, language, image, and so on. Plath is also the flag of feminism. She has provided the precious experiences and the sources for the creation of female poet, and she has made the prominent contribution to the development of the world female poetry. For the Chinese poetry ,she has directly affected the creation of Zhai Yongming and other Chinese contemporary poetess.The dilemma of Chinese contemporary female poetry is that they unclear to understand the self-situation unclealy and pay too much attention to originality and emotional strength of lyrical subject. Consequently, it causes the appearance of individualized writing, especialy the prevalence of murmurous writing. Self-admiration causes the serious scarcity of poetess's innovative consciousness, and self-exposed even causes them to fall into the commercial snare of "the eyeball economy".Therefore their outlet lies in recognizing oneself clearly, expanding the breadth of visual field, increasing the depth of exploration and enhancing the difficulty of writing. Plath's poetry has provided the model for the Chinese female poet, and her poetry writing experiences and lessons are suitable for the contemporary Chinese female poets, even for the entire circle of Chinese new poetry to emulate and absorbe.