Godesses Know How to Create: Alejandra Pizarnik and Sylvia Plath

Authors

  • Ines Ferrero Candenas Universidad de Guanajuato, México.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.24.13

Keywords:

comparative literature, mythocriticism, feminisms, Alejandra Pizarnik, Sylvia Plath

Abstract

This article analyzes two poetry collections, Árbol de Diana (1963) by Alejandra Pizarnik and Ariel (1965) by Sylvia Plath, in direct relation to the ideas put forward by Robert Graves in The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetical Myth (1948). The reading offered here is born out of the critical necessity, on the one hand, to create a space of dialogue that may reveal a common mythical structure shared by both poets and that lies outside the merely biographical. On the other, from observing how this same mythical structure in their poetry resignifies the role of the female creator as idea, symbol, metaphor, ideal and, ultimately, as a woman of flesh and bone with a voice of her own.

Author Biography

Ines Ferrero Candenas, Universidad de Guanajuato, México.

INES FERRERO CÁNDENAS PHD, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH,.

PROFESORA TITULAR A.

DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS HISPÁNICAS

UNIVERSIDAD DE GUANAJUATO

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Published

2021-01-31

How to Cite

Ferrero Candenas, I. (2021). Godesses Know How to Create: Alejandra Pizarnik and Sylvia Plath. 452ºF. Revista De Teoría De La Literatura Y Literatura Comparada, (24), 198–215. https://doi.org/10.1344/452f.2021.24.13

Issue

No. 24 (2021): Science Fiction, Gender, and Exclusion

Section

Miscellaneous

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