is frequently found in feminist poetry. It seems that women writers are particularly intrigued by the subject of life and death perhaps because they are the sex which have the unique role of giving birth to the next generation. In the works of Sylvia Plath‚ Stevie Smith‚ and Ani DiFranco‚ the symbols of blood and water are used to represent the various aspects of the life cycle. Plath’s poem "Cut"‚ Smith’s poem "The Boat"‚ and DiFranco’s song "Blood in the Boardroom" all make references to blood
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Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ "Medallion" is about a snake she finds dead‚ and the details of its body that she notices. Written in 1959‚ its form was strictly "controlled." Plath uses imagery‚ literary devices‚ and sensory details‚ especially colors. First‚ we "see" the image of a snake‚ bronze‚ lying in the sun near a gate with a "star and moon" design. By the gate with star and moon Worked into the peeled orange wood The bronze snake lay in the sun Next‚ Plath uses a metaphor
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Compare and contrast the presentation of Doctor Gordon from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar‚ and the Big Nurse from Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest in regard to the extracts. The two extracts from One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey‚ and The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath are both first person narratives depicting the rebellion towards the patriarchal society after the war in the 1950s and the 1960s. The first one‚ the extract from The Bell Jar shows Esther visiting Doctor Gordon‚ and
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become always more erotic as time went by. The theme of the “Death and the Maiden” was apparent in the following works: Joyce Carol Oates’‚ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” Perrault and Grimms‚ "Little Red Riding Hood;” "Little Red Cap;" Sylvia Plath’s‚ Collected Poems‚ Antigone (Sophocles and Anouilh); and Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In the short story‚ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?‚" Oates gave voice to a fifteen-year-old girl‚ Connie‚ who gets caught alone in her house by
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Centuries-and yet/ Feels shorter than the Day/ I first surmised the Horses ’ Heads/ Were toward Eternity-"‚ obviously meaning that Death made the speaker ’s transition into eternity as enjoyable as her life had been. The speaker in "Lady Lazarus" (Plath‚ Sylvia. [1962]) continually tricked Death‚ thus deceiving herself with the idea that Death would never win. Jean-Paul Sartre believed it is our existence that precedes our essence‚ that by our action‚ we define what we become. (qtd. Boardman‚ Victoria
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Jean uses “Rumbling in the wind” for the us‚ the reader to hear and see the wind rumbling. Also‚ in “Cut” by Sylvia Plath‚ she uses imagery to portray the image and thrill of almost cutting her thumb off. She first talks about how the “top quite gone; Except for a sort of hinge”(Plath‚line 3&4) Both of these writers use imagery in their poems‚ however if these authors did not use imagery both of these poems would be hard to understand the author’s
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Willard” Marriage and motherhood is portrayed as being a burden to the lives of women in both Top Girls and The Bell Jar. What are the Parallels and Contradictions of the portrayal of Motherhood and Marriage between the two texts? The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and Top Girls By Caryl Churchill both feature motherhood and marriage as one of their main themes even though the texts were set at different points in time. The Bell Jar was published in 1963 around the time of the publication of Betty Freidan’s
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for that spark of inspiration yet her surroundings are depressing and dreary‚ “this dull‚ ruinous landscape”. This bold statement is quite a negative and defeated line. Plath is in an intensely emotional state of exhaustion “Trekking through this season of fatigue”. The deeply personal nature of the poem is evident here. Plath is terrified of being on her own even though she cuts herself off from the world‚ “Although‚ I admit‚ I desire‚ Occasionally‚ some backtalk from the mute sky”. She has a
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Digging Summary The poem begins with our speaker at his desk‚ his pen poised to begin writing. He gets distracted by the sound of his father outside‚ working in the garden‚ and this sends our speaker into a spiral of memories about his father working in the potato fields when the speaker was a young boy. The memory stretches even further back to his grandfather and the hard work he did as a peat harvester (there’s all kinds of hard work going on). Eventually‚ our speaker snaps out of his daydream
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a novel that was published in 1963 that chronicles the story of Esther Greenwood. Esther is a young woman who just finished her junior year of college‚ and like most young adults her age‚ she is plagued with an overwhelming sense of uncertainty about what lies in store for her in the future. Esther is extremely conflicted between the various paths she could choose to follow‚ which leads her into a state of depression that ultimately sends her to an asylum. There‚ she
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