Critics have much debated the implications of Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust imagery in her poet... more Critics have much debated the implications of Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust imagery in her poetry, with this scholarship tending to either dismiss or defend Plath's choice of metaphors and subject matter. In his essay, "'Black Phones': Postmodern Poetics in the Holocaust Poetry of Sylvia Plath," Matthew Boswell discusses the initial backlash of criticism focused on the confessional element of Plath's work. These critics claim that Plath's juxtaposition of personal experience with historical genocide is misguided, that "to condone such a confusion is to delude ourselves as to the nature of our personal miseries and their relationshipor relative magnitude when placed againstthe most dreadful event in the history of mankind" (Irving Howe, qtd. in Boswell 53). Boswell, on the other hand, argues against the notion that Plath's Holocaust imagery serves as any kind of personal metaphor. His essay attempts a sort of rescue of Plath's work by providing an explanation for what he considers legitimate use of the Holocaust as poetic subject matter.
Critics have much debated the implications of Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust imagery in her poet... more Critics have much debated the implications of Sylvia Plath's use of Holocaust imagery in her poetry, with this scholarship tending to either dismiss or defend Plath's choice of metaphors and subject matter. In his essay, "'Black Phones': Postmodern Poetics in the Holocaust Poetry of Sylvia Plath," Matthew Boswell discusses the initial backlash of criticism focused on the confessional element of Plath's work. These critics claim that Plath's juxtaposition of personal experience with historical genocide is misguided, that "to condone such a confusion is to delude ourselves as to the nature of our personal miseries and their relationshipor relative magnitude when placed againstthe most dreadful event in the history of mankind" (Irving Howe, qtd. in Boswell 53). Boswell, on the other hand, argues against the notion that Plath's Holocaust imagery serves as any kind of personal metaphor. His essay attempts a sort of rescue of Plath's work by providing an explanation for what he considers legitimate use of the Holocaust as poetic subject matter.
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