by Gwen 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
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Sylvia Plath is a lot like Esther in the way each of them had grown up. In The Bell Jar it explained how Esther’s father had died when she was a very young age. More importantly‚ Sylvia Plath’s father had died when she was a young girl as well‚ only eight years old. Plath had also been a straight A student‚ just as Esther was‚ she was awarded a scholarship for an all girls school In Massachusetts. While gaining college experience Plath “immediately felt the pressures
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SYLVIA PLATH - A ROMANTIC AMONG CONFESSIONALISTS. There is no denying the fact that Sylvia Plath is connected with the confessional movement but she differs from other confessional poets in some respects. She was quick enough to sail enthusiastically in the direction of the tide of Confessionalism. Yet‚ not as wholeheartedly as Anne Sexton did‚ or was pensive restraint as W. D. Snodgrass or with as formidable gusto of self-aggrandizement with which John Berryman exposed himself in his “Dream
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People’s lives are shaped through their success and failure in their personal relationships with each other. The author Sylvia Plath demonstrates this in the novel‚ The Bell Jar. This is the direct result of the loss of support from a loved one‚ the lack of support and encouragement‚ and lack of self confidence and insecurity in Esther’s life in the The Bell Jar. It was shaped through her success and failures in her personal relationships between others and herself. Through life‚ we often lose
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I know that being able to understand and relate her will only help me. On Sunday‚ when the little “organism” fell out of me‚ after the initial shock and panic had subsided‚ I could only help but think “what terrible thing it was that I had done”(Plath‚ 143)‚ just like Esther herself had thought. Even though I had no clue I could possibly be pregnant considering all necessary precautions had been met and there was no way it should have been physically possible‚ I still feel like I did something to
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used to being treated with kindness and respect‚ thus her perception of Death being kind and respectful. The poem tells the reader that the speaker was dead for many years before she realized she was‚ "Since then-tis 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
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The main relationship in the two poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is portrayed by the bond between a father and his child. Though both poems have the same overall subject‚ they can be perceived differently. In “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath represented the relationship through a dark demeanor. While in “My Papa’s Waltz” it had a lighter perception. In “Daddy” the poem goes through stages of dislike and anger. It starts off as if saying the child is done keeping the
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Two views of a cadaver room After reading the poem ‘two views in a cadaver room’ by Sylvia Plath‚ it gives the poem a dark and bright side of love which includes a dark grey area between the two. This poem has an observer who narrates both stanzas of the poem‚ both of which have different overview of emotions mostly depending on love. Sylvia Plath seems to have a sublime image over death as well as love‚ seeing that both of the stanzas have a connection drawn to an optical conclusion that death
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Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ a 19 year old girl‚ Esther Greenwood‚ suffers from depression. The author‚ Sylvia Plath‚ who committed suicide after writing The Bell Jar‚ based her main characters depression off of her real life experiences. This book exemplifies the struggles that teenagers experience while depressed‚ and also vividly describes what causes teenage depression. Even though The Bell Jar is a fiction novel‚ it is a realistic representation of depression in teenagers since Plath experienced
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Sylvia Plath wrote an autobiography which was never meant to be known that it was about her own self‚ or even to be read in America until after her death. Who and what could she have been protecting and why would she even have wrote if it was such a big secret? Plath tells her story of the madness that came over her through Esther‚ the main character in The Bell Jar. She could make this story come to life because it was her own story and she lived it‚ and so she told it; Of course with the help
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