1. Sylvia Plath, Poetry and Works of Art
... masterpiece "The Dream"" in 1910, it was immediately recognized as beautiful but was also widely misunderstood. The painting is appropriately titled. As Rousseau once explained, "The woman on the sofa dreams that she has been transferred to this forest and she listens to the sound of the snake charmer. " Many critics simply could not understand why, if the woman is transported ... to the jungle via a dream, would the sofa on which she reclines appear with her. After all, when a person dreams at night, they do not typically include their bed in the dream. It is these very criticisms that...
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