Sylvia Plath’s Snakecharmer and William Wordsworth’s Self Portrait: Hope and Aspiration to be a Poet, Growth of a Poet’s Mind = Sylvia Plath’s Snakecharmer and William Wordsworth’s Self Portrait: Hope and Aspiration to be a Poet, Growth of a Poet’s Mind

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Sylvia Plath was afflicted by the fear of death. Thus she desperately needed a place where she could be free from it and create new things like a god; the place was her own world of poetry. Controlling and sublimating her fear of death and the reality Plath grew the poetic mind and became a poet. On the other hand, Wordsworth's poetic mind was formed by the poet's interrelation with nature. Nature was Wordsworth's loving mother; young and old Wordsworth was solaced by the power of nature. It was also a stern teacher to Wordsworth. Wordsworth's love of nature led him to love human including himself. Wordsworth considered that “to love” is synonymous with “to know,” and thus the poet's love of nature made him learn and know of human nature fully. In this article I would like to read Plath's poems “Getting There,” “Snakecharmer,” and “The Lady and the Earthenware Head” etc. along with Wordsworth's The Prelude to examine the two poets' artistic aspiration and growth of their poetic mind. (Jeonbuk National University)

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