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 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. ...
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. ...
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....
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...
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...
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. ...
Plath conveys through the speaker, that mental instability can deprive an individual of the greatest moments in life. ... In the poem, Plath uses implied metaphors to reinforce this idea. ... " (11-12) Plath is overwhelmed with her depression and has lost that initial hope. Plath uses very little punctuation throughout her poem but at the very end she uses a period. ... As you can see Plath's depression has overwhelmed her emotions, leaving her numb. ...
A Glimmer of Hope Sylvia Plath was a woman whose mind was a spectrum of creativity and accomplishment plagued with strong depression and hatred. ... Sylvia Plath uses stunning imagery to describe the return of hope and faith from her tormenting depression in her poem Mystic. ... The question of tenderness is one of the many that Sylvia Plath was tormented wit throughout her life. ... This is possibly symbolism for a fresh start and new hope in Sylvia Plath's life. ... Wile being trapped, seized up, and swallowed by her manic depression, Sylvia Plath, desperately searching f...
The novel The Bell Jar written by Sylvia Plath is set in the 1950s America when the idea of adolescence was reasonably recent and society seemed a little uncomfortable with the idea of unrestricted individuality. Sylvia Plath explores these issues about individuality against society's expectations through the protagonist of The Bell Jar, Esther Greenwood who has an identity crisis, which leads to a mental breakdown. ... Sylvia Plath uses the motif "the bell jar" to illustrate the effect of society on Esther. ... Sylvia Plath asks us; to what extent is Esther responsible for her actions an...
A lot can be said for subtle simplicity. The speaker in the poem Mad Girl's Love Song coveys a common deep emotion in a more obvious way, while at the same time sparking a sort of subsurface reaction with beautifully hopeless imagery. She expresses her story of a girl who was so clearly captivated b...
Many poets go ahead and make it clear what emotion they might have during the poem, like in Sylvia Plath's Daddy (1965). ... In Daddy, Sylvia Path takes an unusual approach to express the anger in the poem. ... Plath really shows how emotion can dictate a poem, especially through over exaggeration of anger. ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy," emphasizes the ill-fated relationship between a woman and her deceased father. ... Throughout the poem, Plath uses German inferences and simplistic language in order to escape the oppression of her father, but preserve the idealistic mirror of him. ...
In 1954 Hughes married Sylvia Plath. ... This book won the New York Poetry Centre's First Publication Award, while his next book, Lupercal, was released in 1960. 1962 brought about the separation of Ted and Sylvia which culminated in Sylvia's suicide in 1963. ...
The birth of a child may be one of the most astonishing experiences in a women's life. For many, it changes their lives in many ways based on their experience throughout the whole process. There are many ways to conceive a child, however in Sylvia Plath's "Three Women", the three most common scenari...