Introduction: In this poem‚ Maya Angelou celebrates femininity by playing upon the two possible meanings that could be attached to the poem’s title - Phenomenal Woman. As a liberated woman‚ the speaker in the poem proudly proclaims her individuality; she is an extraordinary person‚ and therefore phenomenal. Phenomenal - from Angelou’s Perspective: Maya Angelou asks the reader to probe deeper into the whole question of what makes a woman attractive‚ worthwhile and valued. The "Phenomenal" in the
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One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy‚ apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite poets
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book‚ Holden explains his inner thoughts regarding everyone he knows‚ and most of them are judgmental. Holden is considered to be a typical American teenager in this novel. First of all‚ teenagers like to express their thoughts. In Sylvia Plath’s article “Sylvia Plath at Seventeen”‚ she begins saying‚“As of today I have decided to keep a diary again―just a place where I can write my thoughts and opinions when I have a moment. Somehow I
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about 1200 objects which illustrate the history of Cambridge. The Arbury Coffin is one of the highlights of the gallery. It contains the bones of a woman‚ a shrew and a mouse thought to date from the fourth century AD. This coffin inspired the Sylvia Plath poem ‘All the Dead Dears’. The shrew and mouse bones found in the coffin of a well-to-do Roman woman in Arbury. Her ankle had been knawed. As you walk up the stairs‚ you will arrive the Maudslay Hall. It is the museum’s principle Anthropology
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with his late and emotionally disturbed wife Sylvia Plath. Victoria Laurie describes the poems as a "a collection of elegiac tender and harrowing poetry addressed to his dead wife.". through Birthday Letters‚ Hughes asserts that the facts and memories of his life and relationship belong to him and not to the world or the media. He says "I hope that everyone owns the facts of his or her own life." In this sense‚ as well as being a personal address to Plath‚ Birthday Letters is also Hughes’ attempt to
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her life because he is dead. The notion that time only fosters negative growth of resentment is prominently featured in the poem. She lived with this suppressed anger and bitterness “For thirty years‚” (Plath‚ 953‚ 4). Growing up‚ she was so suffocated that she “barely dared to breathe or Achoo” (Plath‚ 953‚ 5). This form of restrictive behavior is what forced her to keep these emotions in‚ allowing them to grow to the point that she tried to commit suicide as a means of escape. There are countless
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‘Praise Song for My Mother’ written by Grace Nichols and ‘Morning Song’ Sylvia Plath both convey the emotional connection between mother and child‚ in the form of how a mother loves for and impacts her child. In ‘Praise Song for My Mother’‚ Nichols conveys the mother to be “Deep and bold and fathoming” as well as showing she is the “rise and warm and streaming” displaying the mother was a strong and bright figure in the Child’s life‚ through comforting and natural imagery. However‚ Plath’s persona
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Written Task 2 ONLY HL Written tasks One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course. (The Awakening‚ Katherine Mansfield short stories‚ Sylvia Plath Poetry‚ A Doll’s House‚ Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and Prejudice) The other must be based on material studied in the language option ( Media and Advertisement). Formal requirements for tasks 2 One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical
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fate vs. freewill plays a large part of Frankl’s story. Frankl is imprisoned in a concentration camp during the Second World War. He struggles to find inner peace as his journey progresses and his life unfolds. In The Bell Jar‚ a novel written by Sylvia Plath‚ Esther Greenwood is a girl searching to find her place in the world. As she falls into depression‚ she loses her power of freewill and slowly recedes into herself. Her mind becomes her prison as her will to live disintegrates. In both stories
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similarly to Hughes‚ through the main character’s suffering so as to manipulate the responder into siding with his viewpoint. “Birthday Letters” is used by Ted Hughes in an attempt to exonerate him from public perception that he was responsible for Sylvia Plath’s suicide. He continuously takes the stance of the surrogate victim to Plath’s mental instability and destructive nature in their relationship. This is evident in The Shot; a poem that draws on real life examples‚ ‘you hair done this way and
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