Chromesthesia in the Early Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Petya Dubarova – Cold War Daydreaming on Both Sides of The Atlantic
Chromesthesia in the Early Poetry of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Petya Dubarova – Cold War Daydreaming on Both Sides of The Atlantic

Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the use of colours in the early works of three white suicide poets: the Americans Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and the Bulgarian – Petya Dubarova. In view of the forthcoming new Cold War, by exploring the chromatisms employed in their early poetry, the paper will analyze comparatively spaces of whiteness as opposed to the synesthesia realizations of other colours and will comment on the significance of the resulting coined chromatic collocations with references to the suicidal preoccupations of said poets, as well as to recognizable agents of oppression, which has invited the chromatic usage by all three as a way of youthful daydreaming during the Cold War (1950 – 1990) laden with veiled poetical messages. The paper also aims to promote a lesser-known poet – Dubarova – to World Literature.

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