Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell are two such poets that have used their artistic talents to describe their feelings. ... In the same way, Sylvia Plath also expresses her ambivalent and mixed feelings in her poems "The Colossus" and "Daddy". ... Sylvia Plath also had mixed feelings about her father, and those feelings she expresses in her poems "The Colossus" and "Daddy." ... Plath's "The Colossus" uses a mythological theme to portray her father and her feelings about her father. ... (Lines 17-18) Plath repeatedly emphasizes the largeness of her father in comparison to her. ...

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The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most "confession...

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