대한영어영문학회

Many critics analyze not only Louise Bogans poetic forms and technique such as compression, purity of diction, ellipses, indirection, ambivalence, disruption of expected syntax, seemingly discordant images and traditional metrics but also her perspective toward intimate material and events of her life and approach. Though there are formal and symbolic structures in her poems, they cannot be separated from emotional entanglement, intimate psychological events of her life and ambivalent prejudice that a female poet has to face. Throughout her poetry, criticism, autobiography and letters Bogan shows that her unique experience of gender, her experiences as a female poet and her mother-daughter relationship are huge resources of creativity, vitality and impetus of her poetry. She emphasizes controlled, impersonal and self-effacing style through symbolic and metaphorical ways. This study explores her poetics of anxiety and depression throughout female experiences, cultural prejudice against women poets, and relations between mother and daughter, and examines her poem, Medusa that portrays the psychological landscape of Bogans poetry.