Harwood Clearances by Seamus Heaney Colour Bar by Oodgeroo Noonuccal Couples by Kate Jennings Drifters by Bruce Dawe Father and Child by Gwen Harwood Kindness by Sylvia Plath Letting Go - Fay Zwicky Mother-Right by Adrienne Rich Refugee Blues by W. H. Auden. Sunburban Sonnet by Gwen Harwood The Applicant by Sylvia Plath The Conquest by les Murray The Late Ferry by Robert Gray The Mending Wall by Robert Frost We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal William Street by Kenneth Slessor Songs
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The poem ’Mushrooms’ was written by Sylvia Plath ‚ using a feminist perspective. The literal meaning of mushroom is a fungi that appears overnight‚often got trodden on‚insignificant and unwanted.Sylvia used this title to express the oppressive treatment that men did to women in the society. This poem used plural voice to show that this was a common phenomenon in society that women were underestimated. One of the idea expressed in this poem is that women were not appreciated within the society
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Isolation in general has a lasting effect on a person’s growth and understanding. As isolation comes in different forms‚ the effect it has on the nature of man also varies. The one thing that all forms of isolation have in common is that they influence an individual’s growth in some way. Forced isolation is isolation that is involuntary‚ or against the will. Isolation in which an individual isolates himself or herself is considered self-inflicted. Both of these types have adverse effects on an individual’s
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During history many forms of violence have been featured in the fictional surroundings of a horror story. A horror story is a tale that is created with the intent of inducing a feeling of fear. These tales can be traced back to ancient origins and have come to influence a considerable amount of folk literature. Since the twenthieth-century‚ violence has become a popular form of literature exhiting the the universal violence of modern society. Horror stories themselves can feature supernatural
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The Bell Jar: Marriage and Children The Bell Jar written by Sylvia Plath portrays the complex and troubling ways of what it means to be a female in the 1950s in America. Throughout the novel‚ Esther reflects on how both men and women can be viewed and treated by society; how society expects them to act and what they must do. Most of Esther’s reflections pertain to marriage/motherhood‚ sex‚ and her career‚ her stance on the idea of womanhood comes across differently than the other female characters
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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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L.P. Hartley and Sylvia Plath both use the first person narrative to evoke a sense of tragedy for their protagonists‚ however‚ with Leo‚ Hartley uses the first person narrative to allow the reader to understand the unfortunate event in the life of twelve year old Leo. Some may say that the first person narration of Leo is both more personal and detailed than that of Esther. The reader sees the sophisticated world of Brandham Hall‚ contrasted with the closeness of Leo’s relationship with his mother
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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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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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