Life and Death in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath: A Comparative Analysis
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2021-01
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This study is concerned with A Freudian Psychoanalytic analysis of selected English poems
of two poets: namely Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. This research focuses on how these
poets communicate their conscious and unconscious thoughts through language choices.
Therefore, the main purpose of this thesis is to explore the language use of the poets and find
out which language choices convey meanings in all poems. In addition, the study will try to
identify the themes each poem portrays.
The other aim of this study is to reveal the effectiveness of the Freudian Psychoanalytic
approach in bringing out meaning of the poems and arriving at valid interpretation of literary
texts.
The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the
research work. The second chapters show different reviews and researches related to this
study. The third chapter shows an overview of the concepts in focus and discusses the
concept of Freudian psychoanalysis and basic frameworks of Freudian analysis.
The last chapter deals with the actual analysis of the selected poems. Thus, the poems of
Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath will be analyzed against significant frameworks of
Freudian theories to reveal the message they present as literary works and as reflections of
the poets as well as to show the significant similarities and difference in the works of these
poets.
In the final section, which is the conclusion part, the findings of the researcher are briefly
presented.
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