The Bell Jar was the single novel Sylvia Plath ever wrote. The writer used the name of Victoria Lucas to publish it. This novel written in 1963 is closely connected with the real events from the Plath’s life. The Bell Jar fundamentally tells the story of a young and talented woman in the 1950-s suddenly getting into a culminating isolating process according to a psychic inability to cope with her seemingly established in advance social life. Her work had always been critically discussed‚ because
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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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Commentary on Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath uses dark imagery‚ disturbing diction‚ and allusions to shameful historical undertakings to create a morbid yet unique tone that reflects the necessity of life and death in her poem‚ Lady Lazarus. Even though the imagery‚ diction and allusions presented in Lady Lazarus are entirely dark and dreary‚ it seems‚ looking more closely at Plath’s use of poetic devices‚ as if that the speaker’s attitude towards death is a positive one. The speaker longs for death
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for that spark of inspiration yet her surroundings are depressing and dreary‚ “this dull‚ ruinous landscape”. This bold statement is quite a negative and defeated line. Plath is in an intensely emotional state of exhaustion “Trekking through this season of fatigue”. The deeply personal nature of the poem is evident here. Plath is terrified of being on her own even though she cuts herself off from the world‚ “Although‚ I admit‚ I desire‚ Occasionally‚ some backtalk from the mute sky”. She has a
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’Mushroom’ poem by Sylvia Plath written in 1959 portrays the struggle life of women during that period through the imagery of the growth of mushrooms in the nature. The poet exposes a gap between genders and the struggling process of inferiority women. With its serious and strong emotions‚ the audience can get the sense of women in 1960s. Moreover‚this poet is really unique because besides using metaphor and personification techique‚ it also use biblical illustration. In 1960s‚ women position
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http://mtq.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://mtq.sagepub.com/content/4/1-2/113.refs.html Downloaded from mtq.sagepub.com by Silvia Dumitru on October 11‚ 2010 Volume 4(1/2): 113–136 Copyright © 2004 SAGE www.sagepublications.com DOI: 10.1177/1470593104044089 articles Beyond visual metaphor: A new typology of visual rhetoric in advertising Barbara J. Phillips University of
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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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Motherhood: a phenomenon as old as time‚ each experience as unique and different from the others. Many female poets‚ such as Sylvia Plath‚ Gwen Harwood‚ and Judith Wright‚ have used poetry to reflect on their own reality and their many complex emotions towards motherhood. Although the poets express their relationship with the concept differently‚ using a variety of techniques‚ such as imagery‚ metaphors‚ expressive language and symbolism‚ similar joys and struggles of motherhood are revealed.
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In Sylvia Plath’s "The Arrival of the Bee Box" and T. S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" both speakers are burdened by great mental anguish caused by their feeling of insignificance and powerlessness in the world. They both fear and accept the prospect of death‚ while acknowledging life as its opposite. These are the two sides of the human experience. Through an internal monologue‚ Prufrock explores his feeling of uselessness and displacement in society‚ while in "The Arrival of the
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