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    Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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    In the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she

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    Daddy By Sylvia Plath

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    成绩 Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath 课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10 Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one‚ of course

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    Initiation Sylvia Plath

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    Chantal Chau Analysis of a Key Passage‚ Initiation by Sylvia Plath In Initiation by Sylvia Plath‚ the author suggests that conformity and having friends is a wonderful idea‚ yet the idea of having an individual identity and being an individual is stronger. In the excerpt‚ Millicent is slowly realizing that conforming and being a part of a sorority is not as exciting as it sounds‚ and being an individual offers more opportunities to become a unique person. Millicent is an average girl who no

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

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    group of metaphors could tell a story. The poem‚ “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ would be an example of this. Some may look at this poem and believe it is random metaphors put into nine lines. I believe this is a poem about Plath’s idea of pregnancy as compared to traditionally unrelated objects. “Metaphors” has a clue in each line that would lead the reader to believe that it is depicting the process pregnancy. In the poem “Metaphors”‚ Plath opens with the line‚ “I’m a riddle with nine syllables. In

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    Metaphors - Sylvia Plath

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for her confessional style of writing. Her poem ‘Metaphors’ was written in the 1960’s and expresses her self-loathing during pregnancy. Unlike many poets‚ Plath isn’t afraid to express her inner feelings throughout her work and explore herself within her poetry. In her poem ‘Metaphors’ Plath uses the ‘I’ voice to make her writing deeply personal and convey her pessimistic attitude towards her body image during pregnancy. ‘Metaphors’ is written

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    Sylvia Plath Vertical

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    begins Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication of death. Plath finds

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    Daddy By Sylvia Plath

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    hatred‚ some poets have managed to put pen to paper and come up with beautiful poems that effectively recreate the feeling of hatred in all their readers. Sylvia Plath did not live a happy life. She mentions in her poem “Daddy” that she was ten years old when they buried her father and “at twenty I tried to die/ And get back‚ back‚ back to you” [Plath 954 lines 58-59]. She lived most of her adult life dealing with depression‚ and it’s evident from the poem that she blames it all on her father.

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    Cut by Sylvia Plath

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    "Cut" Sylvia Plath [CONTENT] Persona In terms of content the persona in "Cut" is Sylvia Plath herself. Plath was one of the first American women writers to refuse to conceal her true emotions. In articulating her aggression‚ hostility and despair in her art‚ she effectively challenged the traditional literary prioritization of female experience. Plath has experienced much melancholy and depression in her life. Scenario The scenario of the poem starts off in a seemingly domestic scene‚

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    ‘The Applicant’ places both men and women as victims in a society which disallows them any sense of free-will.’ To what extent to you agree with this view? ‘The Applicant’ by Sylvia Plath is a poem centred on the idea that relationships between humans are only a regime to fill a physical need‚ and marriage is the only way to be free of a crippling lifestyle‚ and women are seen as being a set of appendages and functions‚ men as the consumer and worker‚ key to the success of the Marxist viewpoints

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    Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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    The poem “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath is told from the point of view of a mirror hanging up on a wall. This mirror has‚ over time‚ been privy to the tears of a woman over who she sees in it‚ desperate grasps at moonlit lies‚ and the endless speculations of a pink with speckles wall. “Mirror” is a poem that probes into the corners of human nature‚ beauty‚ life‚ and death‚ reflecting back their truths to readers as good mirrors do. In this poem‚ readers can see the truth about themselves reflected among

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