A Villanelle I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) -- Sylvia Plath‚ Smith College‚ 1954 The above metaphor appears in an amazing poem written by Sylvia Plath. It relates something everyone does everyday‚ blinking‚ and turns it into something so sorrowful and thoughtful and deep. When reading this poem‚ "Mad Girl’s Love Song‚" I get a glimpse of the immensely troubled yet astounding life that Plath led
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In The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood‚ a nineteen-year-old girl‚ gets to live in the big city under the big lights of New York. Going to parties without an ounce of apprehension. Without warning‚ one imperfect moment changes that outlook‚ and suddenly Esther distances herself from everything she had come to know. The constant pressure to be perfect had an anchor effect‚ dragging Esther deeper into the waters of her insecurities. No one else but her mother had noticed‚ but as time goes on Esther continues
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Application Paper: The Bell Jar The Bell Jar‚ a novel by Sylvia Plath‚ gives a detailed story of Esther Greenwood‚ a young‚ bright‚ and extremely talented young woman. The novel begins with Esther’s life in New York where she works for a magazine as an editor. Her time there is filled with stress from the other college girls in her dorm‚ a dwindling love life‚ and constant deliberation over the direction of her life. The novel chronicles how these stressors take an insidious form in her life‚ leading
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Blind Man Under The Fig Tree The future is extremely ambiguous‚ and is one of the many wonders that people cannot figure out. Even if people try to plan out the future do not know what the future will hold. In Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar and Bill Cattey’s poem What Is Happening To Me both share the idea that the future is very indecisive and difficult to face.Through Plath’s characterization of Esther and Cattey’s analogies within his poem‚ they show the frustration a vague future can
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As I turned the corner into the tunnel that seemed like was filled with 1000 cheerleaders all praying for the same thing I could barrely hear my coach shriek with what she has left of her voice “this is are year LEAVE NO ROOM! Don’t let them take away what you worked so hard for this is NEW RO’S TIME I CAN FEEL IT!” my body churned as the worlds flew through my head. The Nemorie of her saying something simalier to me last year flashed in to my mind and instantly my stomach tightened my heart left
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According to Vladimir Nabokov‚ in an essay entitled “Good Readers and Good Writers‚” there are specific traits that make up a good writer. One looking to be a great writer should be “considered as a storyteller‚ as a teacher‚ and as an enchanter” (1007). Sylvia Plath is a good writer‚ because she meets each of his expectations. Nabokov was primarily educated at the prestigious Trinity College‚ Cambridge. He lectured and taught at Stanford University‚ Wellesley College‚ and Cornell University‚ all
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Death within family or friends is a tragedy that no one ever wants to go through. There are multiple ways of death‚ which all affect a person or family harshly. Suicide is one of the highly common ways of death. Umpteen teens much like adults think that suicide is their answer to all their troubles. While several do receive help and overcome this action‚ sadly‚ numerous lose their life. Sylvia Plath uses symbolism‚ imagery‚ and characterization in order to support the theme of suicide. To begin with
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote‚ “If a man does not keep pace with his companions‚ perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears‚ however measured and far away” (Thoreau). Both Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Christopher McClandless of John Kraukaer’s Into the Wild had their own “music” different than societies. This “music” lead to Esther’s suicide attempts and Christopher’s journey to Alaska. While media influences both Esther Greenwood’s
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Journey Through the Tunnel "America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact - the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom‚ responsible government‚ and human equality" - Adlai Stevenson I can still remember that feeling when my mother and father had told me we were moving to America‚ part of me felt as if time had stopped and the other part felt excited to start a new beginning . I couldn’t decide whether this life-changing
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Unraveling Parallels In her modern classic‚ Sylvia Plath tells the story of a neurotic woman on the grip of insanity. The Bell Jar presents the atypical coming-of-age of the successful and magnetic Esther Greenwood. As her mental health declines‚ she longs to escape her cosmopolitan life through taking her own. Though Neurotic Poets recounts the biography of Sylvia Plath‚ The Bell Jar reveals a more personal struggle with clinical depression. Esther’s failure to recognize her self-importance
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