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    Sylvia Plath’s poems: Translation of the self into spirit‚ after an ordeal of mutilation. Introduction of the poems and the essay: * “DaddySylvia Plath uses her poem‚ “Daddy”‚ to express intense emotions towards her father’s life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband. The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten‚ at a time when she still adored him unconditionally. Then she gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her father‚ and

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    Birthday Present” by Sylvia Plath For many readers‚ the draw of Sylvia Plath’s poetry is distinctly linked to her life as well as the desire to end her life. As Robert Lowell states in the forward of Ariel‚ “This poetry and life are not a career; they tell that a life‚ even when disciplined‚ is simply not worth it” (xv). “A Birthday Present”`‚ written by Plath in September of 1962 and hauntingly recorded in her own voice on audio in October of that same year‚ is just one of the many poems that comprise

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    June 29th‚ 2012 The Comparison and Contrast of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath The two poems‚ “And One for My Dame” by Anne Sexton and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath‚ both explore similar themes through the use of literary elements such as structure‚ tone and symbolism. Structures in each poem are alike with length but differ with the actual form. The tone Plath conveys is negative one while Sexton’s is more neutral. The symbolism in “Daddy” was also negative with symbols of the devil but Sexton used a

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    Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 In Massachusetts. She published her first poem at 8 years old. She was a perfectionist and an ideal student. Her father died when she was eight and that’s when she started to change. She attempted suicide in college by overdosing on sleeping pills‚ but once she recovered she became successful in literacy. She wrote over 400 poem while in college. She married Ted Hughes in 1965‚ and a year later‚ at age 28 she published her first book‚ The Colossus‚ in England.

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    Sexton and Sylvia Plath were both great minds‚ creative individuals‚ and some of the greatest poetic individuals of the twentieth century. Though Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were great poets‚ they were also obsessed with death‚ darkness‚ and plagued with manic depression. They yearned for death‚ and both were able to achieve their life goal of dying. They’re poetry is a direct result of their morbid minds and the strange obsessions they shared during they’re several years of friendship. Sylvia Plath

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    Imagery in Poems

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    Jordan Friedman Mrs. Kashmer English Period: 4 5-29-13 Writing to Compare Literary Works The following poems set a great example of imagery. The poet’s use of imagery adds to the meaning of each poem. Imagery describes a poem’s true meaning with the five senses. The images of blackberries help me understand the poet’s ideas within the words because of its vivid details. The visual images in line two have a clear picture of blackberry bushes filled with berries. Each adjective is like berry after

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    chose the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath because the poem seemed familiar to me. I then remembered I read this poem in my senior class. My teacher was pregnant at the moment and she decided to give us this specific poem. Metaphors is rich in figurative language. All lines have a hidden meaning or require a little bit of thinking. At first when I read the poem I was a little confused. Later‚ with the simple clues given I discovered that it was about a pregnant woman. Plath composed a poem that consists

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    if they saw something detailed and abstract‚ it stands out and piques their interest. The same thing can be applied when talking about a reader and literature. A work like Sylvia Plath’s “Poppies In July” has the ability to capture an audience’s attention from the first line‚ as it could be argued to be almost abstract. The poem opens by amiably describing flowers. However‚ the ending of the first line foreshadows something more sinister or dangerous‚ by referring to the poppies as “little hell flames”

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    Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ ‘Whiteness I Remember’‚ and Ted Hughes’s poem‚ ‘Sam’‚ are two poems which describe an experience of Plath’s when she was a student at Cambridge. She was out on her first ride when the horse she had hired the normally-placid Sam‚ bolted. Although Ted Hughes’s is describing the experience he uses insinuations throughout the poem to let out his perception of his marriage with Sylvia Plath‚ hence infuriating‚ the conflict in perspective between the two poems. The ideas of ‘conflicting

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    Daddy

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    Daddy” A Love Lost “Daddy” was written by poet Sylvia Plath who graduated summa cum laude Plath began her writing at the early age of 11 when she began to keep diaries after the passing of her father Otto Plath‚ who died from complications from surgery stemming from diabetes in 1940. “Daddy” is one of Plath’s poems written in 1962 about her father. In “Daddy” it is clear that the feelings and emotions Plath expresses for her father are unhealthy and possibly the relationship she had with him

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