Abstract
This study attempts to analyze the poetry of Sylvia Plath through the theory of melancholy and sublimation Kristeva speaks in The Black Sun. Melancholy and sadness caused by the loss of the Chose(the Thing) should be expressed to prevent them from overpowering you. This expression is performed through sublimation, which expresses the semiotic affect through the formal change of the symbolic. Kristeva’s theory provides a good framework for understanding the extreme darkness, death, and the intense poetic energy in Plath’s poetry as the cycle of melancholy and sublimation. This study examines how the sadness of melancholy is shown and how the strange beauty is created in the process of the poetic sublimation in Plath’s poetry. By re-illuminating suicide as a victory and liberation imagining the great joy of reunion with the Chose, this study corrects the prevalent limited view of Plath’s poetry, which considered suicide in her poetry as a defeat of the desires of the other in a male-dominated society.
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