Eating men like air: las imágenes de la boca y la sangre en dos traducciones de la poesía de Sylvia Plath

Pozníková, Eva

Eating men like air: las imágenes de la boca y la sangre en dos traducciones de la poesía de Sylvia Plath

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Pozníková, E. Eating men like air: las imágenes de la boca y la sangre en dos traducciones de la poesía de Sylvia Plath. 2025. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71030

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Sylvia Plath’s poetic work has been widely examined by literary critics, largely shaped by her biography and death. Many readings emphasise her tragic life and the suicidal dimension of her writing, while others have delved more deeply into her symbolic imagery—rich in colours, oppositions, and bodily figures. However, few studies have focused specifically on her bloody or red imagery, and even fewer on its connection with another central image: the mouth. This study proposes a symbolic, quantitative, and translation-focused exploration of this dual imagery in Plath’s poetry, to show that blood and the mouth form persistent cores of a poetics of the female body—fragmented, hungry, and mythicised. Through an annotated corpus and its visual analysis, the evolution of this imagery over time is traced, and its translation and reinterpretation in two contemporary Spanish versions are examined.