“Dying is an art‚ like everything. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call” – Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain‚ Massachusetts on October 27th‚ 1932 and died in London‚ United Kingdom on February 11th‚ 1963 at the age of 31 years old. Sylvia is well known for her astonishing poem such as “The Bell Jar” and “Daddy”. Her parents were Aurelia Schober‚ who was a student at Boston University and Otto Plath
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“Dying is an art‚ like everything. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I’ve a call” – Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain‚ Massachusetts on October 27th‚ 1932 and died in London‚ United Kingdom on February 11th‚ 1963 at the age of 31 years old. Sylvia is well known for her astonishing poem such as “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy”. She always enjoyed poems. She said she can say it started with her love for nursery
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speaking about Sylvia Plath a word too often use is Tragedy‚ the tragedy that was her life and the pain that ended it. Plath is known for her cynical twisted writing‚ but never too far from the truthful pain no one dared to speak about. Plath was far more than just a sad woman who made it an art form. Plath was more than other women on the Ted Hughes list of accomplishments‚ she was a literary genius and was a face of a movement that 50 years later is still worthy of praise. Sylvia Plath should be
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Atticus Character Analysis Atticus is the father of Jem and Scout‚ and one of the main characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird”. He is an outstanding lawyer‚ father and neighbor in the town of Maycomb. The story takes place during the Great Depression‚ and Atticus is an example of a man who worked with justice to maintain his family and educate their children‚ being the only parent they had. Everyone esteems him; no matter their social status he would treat them all as equal. That is something
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Art Imitating Life At the age of thirty Sylvia Plath committed suicide‚ she was a daughter‚ a wife‚ a mother‚ and a poet. Sylvia Plath made a tremendous impact on the world during her short life by expressing her life through poetry. Her professional life was full of great accomplishments‚ yet her personal life was full of even greater tragedies. In the documentary “Voices and Vision Sylvia Plath”‚ Plath was asked if there were any themes that attracted her as a poet. Plath responded by stating
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In Erik Larson’s “Devil in the White City” his character Olmstead said “that we are always personally under an agitating pressure and cloud of anxiety.” This quote directly resonates with my life and how I subject myself and my body to physiological symptoms of anxiety‚ especially towards things that are not that serious. One task that causes me to feel uncomfortable is calling a stranger on the phone. I will delay making the call even if it’s regarding a minor question such as finding out the opening
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in your face. She was pushing on the friable edge risking that it just might break. She was locked into a closed world where there was no way out. After mindfully setting out the children’s breakfast‚ she opened the oven door and placed a folded white cotton cloth on the inside. She gently lowered herself to the floor and carefully laid her head inside the oven. She turned on the cooking gas‚ but did not move her
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In the poem “Mirror” Sylvia Plath reflects the way society puts pressure on the way you look and can destroy you. “Mirror” is a poem told in first person by the reflection in the mirror. I believe that the mirror‚ the lake‚ and the woman are all one. She is judging herself the whole time through different objects‚ talking as if she is the mirror‚ the woman‚ and the lake. Sylvia Plath proves her point in the first stanza by describing how she feels about herself through the mirror. Plath describes
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of an eye. Because time is something that we can never get back‚ growing older is an idea that many try to deny‚ especially in today’s society. Told from a mirror’s point of view‚ the mirror in the poem witnesses the truth of what it means to age. Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ Mirror‚ is a poem that deals with the truths and lies in the struggle a woman goes through when grasping the reality of aging. The poem is appealing due to the ways in which Plath successfully uses personification‚ figurative language
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Character Analysis- The Great Gatbsy‚ Chapter 1 Nick Carraway serves as the novels narrator and tells us in chapter one that he is tolerant‚ open-minded‚ and quiet and a good listener‚ which makes others; want to confide their secrets in him. Nick is repulsed by the phony nature of the socialites and his moral sense sets him apart from the other characters in the novel. “ Unjustly accused of being a politician”. He seems to be a biased narrator‚ and possibly unreliable as he seems to contradict
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