If Sylvia Plath lived in the age of Aristotle or Plato, or even Horace or Longinus, all these great names might not even give her poetry a second look because all four they have different ideas perspectives of art and literature. Critics from Plato to Shklovsky might all treat poetry differently. Plato makes the artist of feeling important. Address authenticity in a work of art, otherwise the artist, having not experienced what he writes about, would be a liar. Aristotle emphasized credulity, coherence, and the reader's emotional identification with the work of art. Horace and Longinus speak of moral and aesthetic experience, of the effect and intention of the work. However, Shlovsky, the one who introduces the term defamiliarization, sees art as innovation, both in language and form, and seeks to bring poetry into the realm of science and emphasizes technique. He wants poetry to shock readers into true perception. Plath managed to do it. His poetry hardly fits the conception of what a poem should be as imagined by Aristotle, Plato, Horace, and Longinus. The way s...