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Application of Piotrowski's Dark Shading Hypothesis to Sylvia Plath's Poems Written before Her Suicide

Piotrowski (1974) hypothesized that dark shading responses (which include the use of the words black and dark) to the Rorschach cards indicate a style of alleviating anxiety by an increase in overt activity, particularly in those spheres of life that cause the anxiety. Although Piotrowski's system is divergent from other Rorschach interpretive systems (Exner, 1969), his interpretation of shading responses has been validated (e.g., Wagner & Slemboslu, 1969). A few months before she killed herself, Sylvia Plath wrote a poem, Daddy, that reveals much about the motives fo r~her subsequent suicide. In Daddy, Plath used the word black six times. In her first book, a collection of 40 poems published between 1957 and 1962 (Plath, 1962), she used black 20 times and dark six times, an average of 0.65 per poem. If this provides a baseline estimate, it can be seen that in her self-insightful poem written prior to her suicide, Plath used the word black with a high frequency. Given her subsequent suicide, this use of the word black is noteworthy. It might be of interest to explore the use of the words black and dark in other writers' work which was written just before their suicides.