Sylvia Plath‚ is known for darker more depressing poetry style and free-verse writing technique. But‚ like plenty of other poets she uses figurative language. Metaphors is just one of the many types of figurative language. A metaphor is a figure of speech that identifies something as the same as some unrelated person/place/thing for verbal effect‚ thus stressing the similarities between the two. Many poets and authors use metaphors and also symbolism in their writing. In her work‚ Plath uses metaphors
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Plath writes her body is a “thirty year old cargo boat” (4th Stanza: 1st Line) which “sinks out of sight”(4th Stanza: 6th Line) (Dobbs‚ 2000). She is the cargo boat‚ loaded past her maximum ability; she falls victim to the exhaustion of her responsibilities
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Sylvia Plath was born in Massachusetts in October of 1932. She was and still is one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century. She started producing poetry at the young age of eight. Her inspiring poems have awarded her with a Pulitzer Prize‚ which is a huge honor for any writer. “Metaphors”‚ which was written in 1959‚ is a poem with obvious‚ but hidden meaning. It is a very short poem‚ with only nine lines. She also uses only nine syllables in each line. A bunch of other subliminal messages
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Analysis of the Edge by Silvia Plath Sylvia Plath wrote the poem “Edge” six days prior to committing suicide on 11th day of February1963. According to Alexander (1991:214) the poem is alleged to be the author’s last work. The form bears an exciting feature: It has ten stanzas‚ with each having only two lines‚ seized in an enjambment. The second line of every stanza is at all times half of the building and denotation of the first line of the subsequent stanza. Therefore‚ the break of verse
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The use of Personification and Metaphor in ‘Mirror’ In the Poem ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath‚ there is a continuing theme of change. In the beginning the changes are simple‚ like the acts of day turning to night‚ but at the end we see the life changes of a woman in particular. Through the use of metaphor and personification in the poem‚ Plath creates images of water‚ reflections‚ and colors as having human characteristics to emphasize the strong theme of change throughout the poem. From the beginning
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Out of all the poems available for a title poem for Sylvia Plath’s anthology‚ Cut would make the “cut”. While Sylvia has a much darker writing style‚ Cut is about as humorous as her poems get. Cut is one of the more memorable poems read by the class‚ and the poem sticks due to its odd descriptions and nooks and crannies of a chipped thumb. The only time Sylvia really utilizes humor in her poetry is when she makes fun of her own fumbles and follies‚ in Stings‚ about not conforming to the modern housewife
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In the short story‚ “Initiation”‚ Sylvia Plath utilizes Millicent and the sorority girls to imply the theme that conformity for popularity is not better than being one’s own self. Following Millicent through the hazing period or ‘initiation’ of a sorority-like high school social group‚ the reader witnesses Plath’s changing of the character. In the beginning of the story‚ Plath describes the protagonist in the basement of a house‚ detailing how it felt “dark and warm‚ like the inside of a sealed jar”(1)
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We usually think of religion as being redemptive‚ but here the symbols are oppressive. In ‘Lady Lazarus’ Plath expresses an awareness of the world that is underpinned by regret and sorrow‚ uneasiness and apprehension and in ‘Being Christlike ‘Hughes‚ expresses that same sense of regret and let down‚ apprehension and anxiety. Their resentment of failure is palpable. Both poets use twisted symbolism‚ provoking unease in the reader. They construct destructive symbols of neglect‚ abuse‚ cruelty and oppression
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Stringency: A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit. Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details The narrator makes reference to ‘a stake in your fat black heart’ and vampire imagery is clearly used here as vampire can only be killed with a stake through the heart. The stress falling on each word is like each pound and thrust of the stake. In addition‚ monosyllabic words create force and energy. The sentence is plosive and
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Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" portrays her love and hate relationship with her own father. At first glance‚ the poem almost spits vivid words of rage and hate toward her father; but even on the second reading the very structure of the poem‚ as well as a few word choices betray the love she feels for him. This creates a warring duality and she herself the views this unresolved relationship as the root of her misery. The very title of the poem Daddy contradicts the face value of the poem as a whole
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