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Radio host: Your listening to Poetry radio station, coming to you live every Monday night from 5 with new, music and discussions. First up we have Hayley to talk burning poetry.
Hayley: Hey guys and welcome to burning poetry, where poetry is the bonfire of discussion. Tonight’s episode is “shackled” all about depression and mental illness. Although not always easily detected or obvious, mental illness is alive and can have devastating effects on sufferers. The 21st century has given us new ways of treating this epidemic, but there is one approach, which has been a vertical for the outpouring of emotional expression that has endured, poetry. The personal pain played out in the work of Sylvia Plath uses poetry …show more content…
The metaphor of the jews (Sylvia) enduring such audible pain in the tone and guttural sounds of her word choice, produce an onomatopoeic effect with lines such as
“I could not talk to you.
The tongue stuck in jaw
It stuck in like a barb wire snare
Ich, Ich, Ich, Ich,
I could hardly speak”
(Stanga 6, line 26-28)
The pain manifest again by trying to recapture her lost relationship with her dead father by marrying a man she thought was just like her father, but perhaps the pain of a broken marriage is what likened the experience. She had lost both influential men in her life. She therefore, metaphorically kills them both, or their memory in “Daddy”;
(Stanga 15, line 71-74)
“If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two-
The vampire who said he was you
And dank my blood for year,
Seven years, if you wanted to know.”
The “Confessional” natural of the outpouring of personal hurt evident in these lines and made deeply personal by the use of first person pronoun “I” to influence the reader in an intimate