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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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    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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    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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    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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    "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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    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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    Archaeology at Pembroke College. Hughes graduated from Cambridge in 1954. A few years later‚ in 1956‚ he co-founded the literary magazine St. Botolph’s Review with a handful of other editors. Ted met his future wife Sylvia Plath at a party four months after there meeting they got married. Plath encouraged Hughes to submit his first manuscript‚ The Hawk in the Rain‚ to The Poetry Center’s First Publication book contest. The judges‚ awarded the manuscript first prize‚ and it was published in England and

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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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    culture. Modern Poetry ends with the introduction of confessional poetry through the work of artist such Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell. One of my favorite modern poets/ confessional writers is Sylvia Plath. Plath was an American novelist‚ short story writers‚ and poet. She was born in Boston Massachusetts in 1932 and both Smith and Newnham College‚ before she became a poet and writer. Plath was married to Ted Hughes and they had two

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    shows how the audience this poem is built for is those who reside in America. Plath is deliberately trying to send a message to Americans so that they will regain their sense of self rather than easily giving up to Media’s never-ending attempts to brainwash society. Word choices such as ‘movies’ and ‘headlines’ show how media objectifies issues such as the Holocaust and war in general‚ creating a glamourized idea of war. Plath writes about how after these movies we talk about such ‘thin’ people are ‘unreal’

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