LINGUISTIC LAYERS OF SELF-REVELATION THROUGH DEIXIS IN SYLVIA PLATH’S MIRROR
LINGUISTIC LAYERS OF SELF-REVELATION THROUGH DEIXIS IN SYLVIA PLATH’S MIRROR

Summary/Abstract: The confessional poetic movement holds a major place within the context of post-modernist literary tendencies. A typical confessional poem engages into an exploration of the poetic “I” in relation to whom all the other entities are positioned. Linguistically, confessional poets achieve the true confession of their selves through the extensive use of deictic elements, especially person deixis. In this context, the aim of the present paper is to highlight the relevance of a pertinent linguistic approach to the study of confessional poems. More precisely, my research has focused on the means by which deictic elements contribute to the revelation of the poet’s self in Sylvia Plath’s Mirror.

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