Autobiographical Literature As It Is Incarnated In Sylvia Plath’s Poetry

Abstract

This paper investigates how Sylvia Plath’s style of writing is completely autobiographical which reflects her life, suffering and her psychology. Autobiographical literature, in its broader sense, is a style of writing that synonymously resembles with “life writing” which signifies all styles and genres of telling the personal life of someone. Precisely, autobiography as a genre of literature denotes a kind of narrative that tells the author’s own life, or a significant part of it, in order to recreate the development of his/her personality within a given historical, social, and cultural framework. The poetry of Plath is totally autobiographical because she narrates the psychological problems faced by her. Most of the personal problems she discusses in her work are modern problems faced by many people in the world like anxiety, isolation, lack of self-realization, hopelessness, lack of communication and uncertainty.