“Inside the Works of Plath” Silvia Plath writings are considered to the first and best examples of confrontational and confessional poetry of her time. Plath had the uncanny ability to take real life events and turn them into surreal metaphor with in her poetry. Even though Plath poetry was unique for its time‚ her work shows the thumbprints of other poets that help to influence this distinctive style. One of those writers was T.S. Eliot. By time Plath was coming into her won as a poet‚ Eliot
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Sylvia Plath Directions: Read the short bio below and choose FIVE INTERESTING FACTS about Plath’s life that you think may have influenced her writing. WRITE THEM DOWN at the bottom of the document and be prepared to discuss them in class! OCCUPATION: Academic‚ Editor‚ Author‚ Poet BIRTH DATE: October 27‚ 1932 DEATH DATE: February 11‚ 1963 EDUCATION: Smith College‚ Cambridge University PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston‚ Massachusetts PLACE OF DEATH: London‚ England Best Known For Sylvia Plath was
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“Plath’s provocative imagery serves to highlight the intense emotions expressed in her poetry.” I agree completely that Plath uses a lot of provocative imagery to highlight the intense emotions expressed in her poetry. The poem I will discuss in light of this statement is ‘Morning Song’. In this poem I found a lot of provocative imagery that made me feel various emotions. One provocative image that stood out for me was‚ ‘new statue’. I found this image provocative because it’s abnormal
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Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication of death. Plath finds fault
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For Larkin‚ hopes‚ dreams and ideals are ‘relentlessly diminished by the realities of life.’ (Peter King). How far do you agree with this statement in relation to Mr Bleaney? In ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin explores thematically the nature of failure‚ finality and misery. The poem tells the story of two characters‚ bound together by their connection to the same lodging room. Larkin draws focus to the material articles in the poem to form a representation of failure. Larkin notes the ‘same saucer-souvenir
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some poets have managed to put pen to paper and come up with beautiful poems that effectively recreate the feeling of hatred in all their readers. Sylvia Plath did not live a happy life. She mentions in her poem “Daddy” that she was ten years old when they buried her father and “at twenty I tried to die/ And get back‚ back‚ back to you” [Plath 954 lines 58-59]. She lived most of her adult life dealing with depression‚ and it’s evident from the poem that she blames it all on her father.
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In the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she
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This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin They fuck you up‚ your mum and dad. They may not mean to‚ but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra‚ just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats‚ Who half the time were sloppy-stern And half at one another’s throats. Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can‚ And
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Sylvia Plath boldly set the bar for confessional poetry in the 1950s. Using nature as a theme in many of her poems‚ Plath externalised her internal demons in a unique way. The narrative voice in her “nature” poems illustrates Plath’s complicated relationship with the natural world. The reader can relate to this‚ and draw their own conclusion on humanity both in and out of nature. As time goes on‚ and Plath’s sanity becomes even more fragile‚ the narrator’s relationship with nature becomes more intimate
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How do Larkin and Abse present the idea of disappointment and loss? Both Larkin and Abse write poems about disappointment and loss but both having a different idea to how it is presented In ‘Home is so sad‚’ by Philip Larkin‚ the idea of disappointment and loss is presented through a home. The form and structure gives off spontaneous thoughts and written in two quintains and each stanza containing 5 lines. Each line contains ten syllables with a basic iambic metre and containing internal full
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