• Duality ‘if not red‚ then white;’ ‘only the bookshelves escaped into whiteness.’ • Sylvia: Red is a life force‚ vitality‚ the sun; Hughes: Red is blood‚ macabre‚ etc. • White: sanitised hospitals‚ death‚ decay. In asia: mourning. Also cleanliness. “bone clinic whiteness.” • Contrast: Each party’s different meanings for the respective colours. • Repition of “blood” • ‘the family bones’ – reference to plath’s father. • ‘when YOU had YOUR way‚’ insinuating Plath’s dominance in the relationship
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TJ Waller Mrs. Pinchback AP English 12 18 November 2013 Explication One: “Mad Girl’s Love Song” “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced‚ which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the
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‘Your Paris’ present the main issues of Birthday Letters? (Reference to two other poems) Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Your Paris’ was written about Ted Hughes’ and Sylvia Plath’s visit to Paris shortly after their marriage on 16 June 1956. The poem is part of the collection ‘Birthday Letters’ published in 1998‚ 35 years after the suicide of Sylvia Plath and so is written (as most of the collection) with the benefit of Hindsight and so Hughes is able to relate their trip to Paris to the future of their relationship
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responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day [Everyone]… [will] truly grow up” said by John C Maxwell‚ Author. While anyone can grow up only few can make their own decisions and truly mature. Maturity can be seen in Sylvia Plath’s “Initiation” and Richard Peck’s “I Go Along”. In Sylvia Plath’s “Initiation” a young woman Millicent makes her own decisions and does not join a high school sorority. Millicent found out that joining a group‚ sorority‚ club‚ or gang will not have an effect on how people
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may influence them physically‚ emotionally or mentally. It is through these influences‚ which can be positive or negative‚ that a person becomes who they are. The novel‚ Tirra Lirra by the River‚ the film‚ Good Will Hunting and the poem‚ Daddy by Sylvia Plath all demonstrate the idea of self discovery
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Symbolism of Color in “Tulips” Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” which was written on March 18th‚ 1961 and originally published in “Ariel”‚ is a poem written about a bouquet of tulips a woman received while recovering in the hospital from a procedure. While anyone recovering in a hospital would love to receive a loving “get well” gift from loved ones‚ the woman in this poem is quite bothered by them‚ preferring to be left alone in the still whiteness in her room. Plath uses two colors‚ white and red in
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"Cut" is one of Sylvia Plath’s best confessional poems.It has been dedicated to Susan O’Neill Roe‚Plath’s nurse and a close friend during the period of her single motherhood.It is narrated by a woman who has just cut her thumb while slicing an onion.It has been written in a free verse and has ten‚four-line stanzas. The poet begins by saying‚ "What a thrill".She considers having cut her thumb to be exciting and interesting.The top part of her thumb has been cut of and a small hinge of skin is left
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In an interview with Peter Orr in 1962‚ Sylvia Plath said‚ "I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences‚ even the most terrifying..." In using her own experiences with attempted suicide and involuntary resurrection‚ Plath has done just that in "Lady Lazarus." Plath continued with: "I think that personal experience is very important‚ but certainly it shouldn’t be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking‚ narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant‚ and relevant
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Birthday letters is important in terms of establishing the personal nature of confessional poetry. In Hughes poem‚ Fulbright Scholars’ his use of the 1st person for example “At 25 I was dumbfounded”‚ and‚ the poets use of direct address to the subject (Sylvia) with his words “your long hair” emphasise the subjective nature of the treatment of a biographical subject. In doing this Hughes forms a close connection with the reader creating a bond between the past and the present. Fulbright scholars is
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Hughes demonstrates his perspective towards his destructive relationship with Plath through The Minotaur. Violence is evident in the very opening when Plath ‘smashed’ Hughes’ ‘mother’s heirloom sideboard – Mapped with the scars of [his] whole life’. Here Hughes is expressing the damage deep inside him than the physical destruction by Plath; that he too has childhood ‘scars’. Hughes suggests that Plath’s over-reaction and violence reflects her unstable mind by the word ‘demented’ revealing his helplessness
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