Mare del corpo, mare della mente. Sylvia Plath e lo spazio acquatico

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the images of the sea and the aquatic element in Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar – with further references to the later poetry and prose production – focusing on the lexical occurrences of certain words such as sea , ocean and water . All this leads to the possibility of reading the text by ‘aquatic textual plans’, on the basis of the inner lexical matches, and making a distinction between “sea of the body” and “sea of the mind”.