Themes evident in Sylvia Plath’s poetry Sylvia Plath displays many themes in her work; however she has the tendency to conceal and dig her themes‚ metaphors‚ and symbols deep in her poetic words‚ which leaves us readers left to decipher them. Plath is a poet that conveys quite compelling emotions through her work and is both prodigious and petrifying while still gloomy and relieving. Though there are many themes to revisit‚ the more significant ones evident in her writing will be explored. Mortality
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Comparing Poems I am going to be talking about their methods that the poets use to explore the connection between people and the places in which they live in. The poems that I am comparing are Hurricane hits England and Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan. In Hurricane Hits England the techniques used are personification‚ she says “Talk to me oya” here referring to the hurricane as a person‚ she is doing this to try and feel like she is at home‚ trying to connect back to where she came from‚ it
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D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Piano” and Langston Hughes “The Weary Blue” are two remarkable poems about the connection they encounter with music. Lawrence and Hughes both use music to remind them of moments in life when music impacted them most. While both poems have similarities they also have vast differences. The poems “Piano” and “The Weary Blue” both use music as a theme‚ but the poets tone is what makes the poems different. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast Langston Hughes “The
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Algernon Charles Swinburne a great poet from England known for expressing his ideas of writing and suggestive metaphors to his readers‚ but keeps the idea of beauty and love through the Victorian era and with medieval writing theme. “A braggart in matters of vice‚ who had done everything he could to convince his fellow citizens of his homosexuality and bestiality without being in the slightest degree a homosexual or a bestializer.” (Oscar Wilde on Swinburne) Swinburne’s work was written during the
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Love has a variety of effects on people. When it is pure it can change people for the better and heal their pain. “Catch the Moon” was written by a Puerto Rican American woman and is set in the Caribbean Hispanic Barrio. “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” is written by a Caucasian man from New Hampshire and is set in a New England summer home waterfront community. In “Catch the Moon” and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” The main character a teenage boy‚ believes himself to be in love with
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upon Christian conversion‚ and specifically the conversion of a culture or empire which is pre-Christian‚ suggested in the poem to be barbaric; a culture or force that has got by on instinct alone and suggestively is ignorant of its destructive nature. The image of enlightenment‚ the discovery of knowledge and the losing of ones innocence also tie in with the Christian theme. A large and powerful force‚ ignorant of its own destructive nature‚ is the first image we perceive from reading the first
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Comparing poems: “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin” Conflict is presented in the poems “Cousin Kate” and “Catrin”. In the poems the conflict is based on the relationships between families. However‚ in “Cousin Kate”‚ the conflict is also in the class divide of a powerful lord and a poor maiden who I s controlled and abused by the lord. “Catrin” focuses on the bond between a mother and daughter and the conflict that relationship brings. The imagery in “Cousin Kate” conveys how the love between the lord
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Similar Triangles Project February 12‚ 2013 Introduction: In this project‚ I found the height of an object I chose based on how tall one of my partners is‚ how far away she is from the mirror‚ and how far the mirror was from the base of one of the objects. From there I set up a proportion and solved for X. X represented the unknown height of the chosen object. Once I figured this out I then converted to feet and compared that to my partners height to see if it
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surface. Poems‚ however small or large typically have an ambiguous message. The true beauty of a poem is that they are open for the interpretation. Ellen Hunnicutt‚ the author of the original “Blackberries‚” inspired many others to write poems on the subject of blackberries. Similar to some extent‚ Robert Hass’‚ “Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who has Been Reading Jacques Lacan” and Seamus Haeney’s‚ “Blackberry-picking” share a variety of common ground. Both poems are literally similar as well
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ants posses very many qualities which are similar‚ and some the same as humans. The first quality that is similar to humans‚ is that the ants all try to work themselves to the top of the ant colony‚ this is one quality that the character Z has more then the others. Another quality that the ants have to live by which is they live‚ and follow instructions by one controller. The ants also posses many similar human characteristics. They also show similar emotions that us humans show. The ants in
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