A phenomenological approach to Plath’s poetry is first of all justified by the ways in which the poet herself understood the process of creation. Her Journals stand proof to her desperate attempts at finding a synthetic vision meant to provide her with a defining attitude and poetics. Our effort here is to analyze some phenomenological aspects inherent in the construction of Sylvia Plath’s poems. This, we think, might help us identify a possible motivation of the mysterious mechanism enacted so passionately in some of her poems, a mechanism taking the poetic self through repeated deaths and rebirths, toward a final transformation affecting not only the self but also the Other.
