Sylvia Plath and Unrelated Text The inner journey is a metaphysical process in which an individual travels into their own psyche often resulting in form of self realization. Although the journey is not physical‚ an inner journey is a powerful tool in which one can enhance their knowledge of the world and their own human nature‚ commonly encountering imaginative obstacles which assist in the individual’s self-realization. The texts that I will use to illustrate the inner journeys are “You’re” and
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yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression
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Personification: Personification is an example of figurative language in which nonhuman objects are given human characteristics or abstract ideas are presented as people by the author. Personification can make descriptions of non-human entities more vivid‚ or can help readers understand‚ sympathize with‚ or react emotionally to non-human characters. The connotative associations that are made with personified subjects allow for This literary device is an example of one the five principal
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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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Hernandez 1 Huasnely Hernandez Professor Sweeting Lit 201-01 28 February 2017 Death The personification of death is clearly understood in John Donne’s‚ "Death‚ be not proud" as well as in Emily Dickinson’s "Because I could not stop for Death". Despite the different implications in each poem‚ the central theme is death. The inevitable realization of death is explored in both poems‚ by examining death as a person and by reflecting the poets’ religious beliefs. Although John Donne’s poem was written
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In her poem Daddy‚ Sylvia Plath creates a speaker that embodies a fierce internal struggle embedded with a great fear of her true personal identity. Drawing on themes of persecution‚ violence‚ and victimization‚ the speaker begins to form her identity and battles with her father’s past. Throughout the poem she repeatedly persecutes her father‚ denying all connection to the Nazi identity he once held. In contrast to her father‚ the speaker never explicitly mentions her mother‚ only implying that she
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In Emily Dickinson’s poems “A word is dead‚” “The heart asks pleasure first‚” and “Because I could not stop for Death”‚ personification is used to understand the meaning. In “A word is dead‚” the poem is about when a word is spoken many believe it loses meaning‚ but Dickinson says it “begins to live that day.” Dickinson uses personification to describe “a word is dead” and “begins to live.” A word is an expression one uses. A word cannot die nor live‚ it can only happen through the actions of a
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by Pat Mora‚ personification is used to represent what the poem means. ¨Gold¨ takes place in a desert and the narrator is a girl. “Gold‚” is a poem about a girl who goes into the desert and feels right. She hangs out with her friends which are lizards‚ rabbits‚ and birds. This poem is told in first person. The tone is soothing and calm. The girl feels she is in sync with nature and she belongs there. She feels like it is her home. In ¨Gold‚¨ one of the examples of personification is ¨Sun paints
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After banished from Asia Minor by an unfaithful husband‚ Madea retalizes by murdering her children and husbands mistress while simultaneously rationalizing her “brains cold logic” (945). Through the use of personification Madea creates a repentant tone because she is able to separate the horrid thoughts that her brain forces her body to carry out. Additionally by separating brain and body the action can be viewed as a euphemism regarding the dynamic roles between
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prosecuted. Today in our society‚ people have believed that men are the superior gender. Everywhere‚ from the bible to the everyday life‚ men are given a high pedestal while women are treated as second class citizens. In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath‚ Esther Greenwood struggles with this idea of how women are treated and how that leads to mental deterioration. According to a document on sexual assault‚ sexual assault is a crime of power and control. Sexual assault is used when sexual behavior occurs
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