1. Sylvia Plath
Reading Sylvia Plaths poems and knowing little about her life, a psychological aspect is obvious. ... Sylvia Plath's writing always had a way to make the reader understand how she was feeling about trials in her life; Plath pulled her readers in her world. . Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors" concentrates on the psychology of pregnant women, and the apprehension Plath had during this time in her life. ... Sylvia feels that she is sheltering something, but has to think deeply about sheltering this object. ... Sylvia Plath and the elements she chose to describe a pregnancy gave the fe...
Sylvia Plath What was it that drove Sylvia Plath to suicide? What encourages a poet such as Sylvia Plath to produce such intense pieces of writing? ... Many poets in the past have produced such works, but none have been as striking as those of Sylvia Plath's. ... Many of Plath's poems have made reference to her past. ... Sylvia Plath had it all. ...
Daddy Sylvia Plath 1932-1963 Sylvia Plath wrote "Daddy" just four months before her death by suicide in February 1963. ... In February 1963, Sylvia Plath chose death over life. ... Works Cited Howe, Irving: The Plath Celebration: A Partial Dissent. ... New York, Chelsea House Publishers, 1989 Kehoe, John: Young, Talented, and Doomed: The Life of Sylvia Plath. ... Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems. ...
In the poem "Mirror"," Sylvia Plath uses strong metaphors and objects as things reflected in a mirror. ... Plath stated, "I am silver and exact"." ... Plath says, "Now I am a lake... Plath uses strong metaphors of nature and objects as people. ... "(16) Sylvia Plath's youth had passed and she feels the effects of age upon her. ...
In this opening, Hughes makes use of the religious diction of Plath's worship to suggest an active seeking out of powerful masculine figures by Plath. ... In this way, Hughes makes use of the familiar image of a worshipper in both poems to explore his guilt in the demise of Sylvia Plath. ... Uniquely, the poem is one of the few in Hughes work which does not make use of Sylvia Plath as a muse, instead adopting the second person pronoun 'you' to directly address Otto Plath. The poem describes the entangled images of Plath and Hughes created in Sylvia Plath's poetry. ... Hugh...
In the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, we encounter a woman of mixed feelings because she didn't feel loved or affectionate by her father. ... In the first stanza, Sylvia Plath refer to herself as a foot when and her father a shoe "you do not anymore, black shoe in which I have lived like a foot.... Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. ... Plath definitely wrote this poem to free herself from the memories of her father and her husband. ... Plath is still pained by these men, and cannot completely go on being alive. ...
But those who are able to accomplish the metaphor in the way that Sylvia Plath does are few and far between. ... Surface-Level Reading The poem, Morning Song, comes from the pages of one of Sylvia Plath's most famous books entitled, Ariel. ... The poem Morning Song, written by Sylvia Plath, employs varying metaphors and imagery to communicate a hesitant mother's growth of love and acceptance for her newfound relationship with her child. ... Morning Sun is a refreshing change of scenery for readers familiar with Sylvia Plath's work because of its slightly more loving dispositio...
In "Lady Lazarus," Sylvia Plath transmutes domestic images into the macabre as she glorifies the narrator's self-determined encounters with death: "A sort of walking miracle, my skin/ Bright as a Nazi lampshade,/ My right foot/ A paperweight,/ My face a featureless, fine/ Jew linen." Plath transforms victim into heroine but not without sacrificing believability. ...
Throughout the poem Tulips by Sylvia Plath, the author seems desperately searching for peace and tranquility, and instead finds everything she despises, symbolized by the tulips she received as a get well present. ... Then she receives the tulips, which contrast with the white so much that Plath says they hurt me in line 36. ... The passage from lines 36-42 describe how painful this idea is to Plath. ... However, Plath also personifies her enemy the tulips to show us how she feels about her gift in a way the reader can understand. The personification of the flowers begins with line 37 wh...
The poem Blackberrying' by Sylvia Plath deals with the reflective descriptions of a journey the narrator makes through a blackberry alley. ... Blackberrying' by Sylvia Plath is a very captivating piece containing deep, abstract concepts which have been supported and enhanced by the use of effective techniques and language. ...
This is the question that troubles Esther Greenwood in Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar." ... In the novel "The Bell Jar," Sylvia Plath's style requests her readers to look inside the distraught mind of Ms. ... Furthermore, Sylvia Plath's imagery is used to help paint the picture of just how determined Esther is to meet her own expectations as well as societies. ... In Stephanie Tsanks, "The Bell Jar: A Psychological Case Study," states the bell jar as a symbol of society's stifling constraints and befuddling mixed messages that trap Sylvia Plath's heroine, Esther Gr...
The central theme in the poem "Mirror," by Sylvia Plath, is self-reflection and appearance. ... Imagery of water, personification, point of view and shift are applied to emphasize Plath's subject. ... In the last line of the poem, Plath writes that the old woman that reflects back is "like a terrible fish....
In Sylvia Plaths poem The Applicant she writes But in twenty-five years shell be silver, / I fifty, gold. / A living doll, everywhere you look. / It can sew, it can cook, / It can talk, talk, talk (ll. 31-35). ... In Sylvia Plaths poem The Applicant she writes But in twenty-five years shell be silver, / I fifty, gold. / A living doll, everywhere you look. / It can sew, it can cook, / It can talk, talk, talk (ll. 31-35). ... In Sylvia Plaths poem The Applicant she writes But in twenty-five years shell be silver, / I fifty, gold. / A living doll, everywhere you look. / It can sew, it can cook, /...
Sylvia Plath and Susan Glaspell are prime examples of women who bucked society's expectations and entered into - and succeeded in - predominantly male careers. The unknown female character in Sylvia Plath's poem, "Mirrors," reflects Plath's own emergence into a woman who is coming to understand the truth despite the demands of age and time. ... (Plath 10-11) The mirror symbolizes how she sees herself. ... "(Plath 17-18) The unknown character "Mirrors " finally is revealed and understands that once upon a time she was young and now she is old and there is no going back to chang...
Sylvia Plath was born on the 27th of October 1932, in Boston Massachusetts. She was raised well by both of her parents until her father caught an illness and died when Sylvia was only eight years old (Newman 15). ... Before her death, Sylvia would go to her downstairs neighbor and claim that she was going to die. In a biography of Sylvia Plath Ronald Hayman states "She stood there with bloodshot eyes tears running down her face: "I'm going to die. . . ... Finally, On February 11th of 1963 Sylvia Plath committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills and gas inhalation. ...
Among the many mythical themes present in the poetry of Sylvia Plath, the archetype of the Father figure is one of the most prominent. ... The overriding male figure of Plath's poetry is not simply an element of Plath's autobiography, it is a symbol of power and masculinity that is relevant to all humanity. In the poem "The Collosus" Plath mythologizes her own father. ... In this context it is logical that the image of the father may remain larger than life in the subsequent developmental stages of the girl, certainly impacting Sylvia Plath specifically. ... The father symbol as po...
Sylvia Plath was an American poet who wrote many brilliant, yet controversial poems, including her well-known work, "Daddy." ... Therefore, we can say that Sylvia Plath's feelings towards her father are rather confusing. ... In the poem "Daddy," Plath felt a distance between her and her father. ... Sylvia Plath also compared her relationship between her father and herself as the Jews and Nazis. ... In conclusion, Sylvia Plath's overall feelings are torn between love and hatred towards her father, distance and her obsessive feelings towards her father. ...
"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath shows the shallowness and superficial concerns of women through the personification and the description of a mirror reflecting a woman's life and her character. The poem is narrated by the mirror, which doesn't provide an unbiased and impartial view on its character contrar...
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. ... Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963, at age thirty, she committed suicide. ... Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" uses the Jews' insufferable torture and helplessness during the Holocaust, to express her feelings and thoughts on her love-hate relationship with death. Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" is written in short, three-line stanzas, which offer quick and roughly descriptive details. ... The poem "Lady Lazarus," by Sylvia Plath, use...
This essay will demonstrate and examine how the selected works of Sylvia Plath, Diane Di Prima, and Suzanne Collins, challenge the standard depiction of the twentieth century's female gender roles by defying the patriarchal belief of women's domestic position within society. Sylvia Plath became known as a feminist writer through her poems that exposed patriarchal oppression. ... By making such harsh connections to her oppressor, the reader can see Sylvia Plath's use of feminist writing flourish in order to prove the true issues of oppressive patriarchy. ... By writing this p...
Plath's Powerful use of Imagery and Metaphors In the poem "Daddy,"" the speaker, Sylvia Plath confesses her true feelings about her deceased father. ... Uroff, in his essay "Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration.."" ... Plath's unique style is interpreted by Caroline King Barnard Hall in "Sylvia Plath, Revised- as being child-like. ... The speaker's feelings of loneliness is discussed in Al Strangeways essay "The Boot in the Face: The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath."" ... Sylvia Plath uses powerful images such as the Holocaust in ...
Take a Walk on the Dark Side On February 11, 1963 Sylvia Plath laid her children down to rest, walked downstairs to the kitchen, turned the oven on and then stuck her head in it. ... Depression had smothered Plath's mind her entire life. ... Almost all of Plath's poem's have the same theme: death. ... Plath is obviously miserable, as one can see when reading this poem. ... Plath writes, "It's easy enough to do it in a cell. ...
Take a Walk on the Dark Side On February 11, 1963 Sylvia Plath laid her children down to rest, walked downstairs to the kitchen, turned the oven on and then stuck her head in it. ... Depression had smothered Plath's mind her entire life. ... Almost all of Plath's poem's have the same theme: death. ... Plath is obviously miserable, as one can see when reading this poem. ... Plath writes, "It's easy enough to do it in a cell. ...
