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Sylvia Plath has been widely recognized as a confessionalism whose best-known works are preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction. Besides, images in her works have been under discussion by many scholars. The poem Point Shirley is a classical poem of Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection The Colossus and Other Poems, which has lamented her grandmother’s death. By analyzing imagery elements and confessional elements in Point Shirley, this paper explores Plath’s compositional style. Conclusions are arrived that (1) Point Shirley can be seen as both imagery and confessional; (2) In fact, imagery elements are employed to confessional expression; (3)together with the well-arranged structure, imagery and confessional elements in Point Shirley have helped to express feelings: sadness for grandma’s death, hate toward the cruel sea, and longing for death. This case study has studied Plath’s compositional style and is helpful to understand Plath as well as her works better. |