The Confessing Tongue: Religious Allusions in Sylvia Plath's "Tulips"
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Abstract
This essay explores the religious allusions in Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” through an analysis of the poem’s relationship to the confessional genre. Both the Catholic confession and the poetic confession require a level of commitment to the self and to social dialogue. I argue that the speaker, though presenting her speech in a confessional frame, remains unwilling to engage with herself and her society throughout most of “Tulips.” In particular she avoids association with motherhood and Mary, both symbolic of the full engagement of the self as generative and responsible for other human beings. Slowly, however, the speaker re-connects to herself and her community as she owns more and more of the religious imagery in the poem.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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