Ekphrasis in “The Disquieting Muses†: A Dialogue Between Poetry and Painting
Abstract
The American Confessional poet Sylvia Plath(1932-1963) has created a series of poems based on well-known western paintings at the early ages of her writing. “The Disquieting Muses†is one of these ekphrastic poems, which depicts the noncommunicative relationship between her and her natural mother. If we approach this poem from the perspective of inter-arts poetics, that is to say, to analyze the poem side by side with its painting copy, we can discover different approaches of dialogue between the poem and the painting. This paper is meant to explore unique charm and beauty in ekphrastic literature as well as to add new perspectives to the study of Plath’s poems.References
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