COLOR VOCABULARY IN THE CREATION OF EMOTIONAL AND AESTHETIC EFFECT IN SYLVIA PLATH'S POETRY

Abstract

Sylvia Plath's poetry has become an indisputable fact of the literary life of the English-speaking world, and thanks to numerous translations, including into Ukrainian, it has exerted an influence on other literatures. Sylvia Plath belongs to those original authors whose works never cease to amaze readers and critics.
Sylvia Plath published little during her life, after her death thousands of pages of not only poetry and novels, but also diaries and epistolary heritage remained – an inexhaustible source for searching for the deep essence of the poetess. It is noteworthy that the collection of her poetry, which was published by her ex-husband, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 – an award given for new literary achievements. This award was given for poems that were more than twenty years old at the time.
Very different topic, the mosaic of poetic style is the source of an increasing number of studies in the direction of both traditional literary studies and modern cultural, linguistic, and intertextual studies.
The main motives and images of Sylvia Plath's poetic works are created around the theme of female loneliness against the background of the traditional patriarchal understanding of her gender role and personal frustration with this loneliness, using a wide range of expressive means of poetic language and linguistic structures, which found their embodiment in lexical-semantic and stylistic intonation features of the poet's work. The article is devoted to the characteristics of the color vocabulary in Sylvia Plath's poetry.