student I have read many poems through my school years‚ but I have three poems that are my favorite there are "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost and "Driving to town late to mail a letter" by Robert Bly. These poems are my favorite because I can relate in some aspects on a personal level in "Lady Lazarus"‚" Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" and "Driving to town to mail a letter" reminds of nature. Sylvia Plath is one of my favorite female
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Anna Fink ENGL 210-0824T Essay 1 Schumacher Daddy by Sylvia Plath The definition of father is a male parent. For some people the word father goes much deeper than that. A father is someone who protects you and loves you‚ gives you guidance and advice‚ and is the one person you can always count on. But for some people a father is just that‚ a male parent; a person you barely know‚ or a person you have come to fear. In Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ Daddy‚ she tells a chilling description of a man whom
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The Life and Poetry of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was born on October 27‚ 1932 in Boston Massachusetts‚ and died on February 11‚ 1963 by suicide. She became a poet and was known after she died for “the intense coupling of its violent or disturbed imagery and its playful use of alliteration and rhyme” (Poets.org). She began her poetry when she began to write and just after graduating high school her first published poem was in the Christian Science Monitor in 1950. Sylvia was diagnosed with depression
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Throughout the poem‚ Plath uses metaphors about the Holocaust to illustrate Lady Lazarus’s pain and suffering‚ and this may provoke sympathy in the reader. She decribes Lady Lazarus’ foot as a “paperweight” and her face is “featureless fine Jew linen” which may connote the narrator’s feelings of being heavy and undistinguishable from those around her. The poem may be an extended metaphor for depression. If the character’s foot is a “paperweight” then it would be difficult to move‚ and Plath may be alluding
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Symbolism of a Feminist Poem in Sylvia Plath Some literary critics have linked Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ “Daddy" (524)‚ as a confessional or autobiographical poem about the relationship with her father. Undoubtedly‚ she references her own personal life‚ however‚ “Daddy”‚ should not only be read in a narrow sense‚ as her intentions are to convey a more significant theme. The tone of the poem expresses a strong disdain towards not only her father and husband‚ but towards the male gender. It is arguable
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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 it
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Sylvia Plath‚ Exam Question. The poetry of Sylvia Plath is intense and quite disturbing. Discuss I agree with the statement that Sylvia Plath’s poems are filled with intense and disturbing thoughts. Plath’s poetry is intense‚ deeply personal and quite disturbing. Plath has a dark mind filled with doubts and demons of all shapes and sizes which provides rich imagery to draw from. The best poems to describe the disturbing experience are ‘Child’‚ ’Black Rook in Rainy Weather’‚ ‘Morning Song’‚ ’Mirror’
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Sylvia Plath was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ on October 27‚ 1932. Sylvia Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes‚ even though the two later split. Plath published her first poem at the age of eight and she committed her first attempt to suicide at age ten. However‚ beneath the surface of her seeming perfect there were some grave depressions‚ some which probably were caused by the death of her father‚ when she was eight. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath Sylvia began to explain her father’s
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‘Sylvia Plath uses startling imagery when writing about landscape’ I agree with this statement to a large extent. Sylvia Plath uses startling imagery to portray her heightened emotions using the nature around her to create her poems. Plath’s poems are mainly focused around the theme of death and depression. In Sylvia Plath’s poems‚ the rhythm is often non-up beat and uneven. This forms a more natural and vivid image of the nature and landscape around her. In addition‚ Plath’s use
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On "Daddy" Robert Phillips Finally the one way the poet was to achieve relief‚ to become an independent Self‚ was to kill her father’s memory‚ which‚ in "Daddy‚" she does by a metaphorical murder. Making him a Nazi and herself a Jew‚ she dramatizes the war in her soul. It is a terrible poem‚ full of blackness‚ and one of the most nakedly confessional poems ever written. From its opening image onward‚ that of the father as an "old shoe" in which the daughter has lived for thirty years—an explicitly
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