ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A mid-century exponent of female literary Gothic, Plath is a missing historical link, using Gothic strategies and tropes when confessional poetry and romantic fictions predominated.

Detailed explanation-2: -She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sylvia Plath was an American writer whose best-known works, including the poems “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the novel The Bell Jar, starkly express a sense of alienation and self-destruction that has resonated with many readers since the mid-20th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -The term “Gothic Poetry” loosely refers to any poem that contains dark, frightening elements. Some examples of gothic poets include Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti. Poets often choose Gothic poetry to express deep inner conflicts, emotional pain, unrequited love, or the need to shed a conventional existence.