'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath.
Title: 'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 5745 | Pages: 21 (approximately 235 words/page)
'The Boot in the Face': The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath.
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 5745 | Pages: 21 (approximately 235 words/page)
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…showed last 75 words of 5745 total…of poetry, between the mythic desire that poetry transcend history and the "committed" purpose that it name history and thus remember it. An understanding of the "boot in the face" effect of Plath's treatment of the Holocaust, then, enables the recognition that the dissonances between history and myth in her poetry are not an aesthetic problem but work to prohibit complaisance about the definitions of--and the relationship between--myth, history, and poetry in the post-Holocaust world.