Tamra Turner Professor Ward Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography Cooper‚ Brian. "Sylvia Plath and the depression continuum." Logo of jrsocmed. (2003): n. page. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539515/>. Sylvia Plath was a gifted young poet‚ died by her own hand in London forty years ago. In January 1963 Sylvia consulted her GP complaining of depression‚ and for the first time told him of a serious suicidal attempt she had made ten years earlier
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by Sylvia Plath in 1962 shortly before her death is about her relationship with her father‚ Otto Plath. It has produced a variety of distinct reactions‚ from feminist praise of its unadulterated rage towards male dominance‚ to wariness at its usage of Holocaust imagery. I would like to adapt Daddy for a play based on Sylvia Plath and her relationship with her father. The theme for the play would be mortality of herself and her father and freedom and confinement. The play would feature Sylvia Plath
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Morning Song Sylvia Plath Morning Song‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ was written in February 1961‚ the same month she suffered a miscarriage. Morning Song‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ explores the physical and emotional links between a mother and child‚ and Plath’s own growing maternal bond with her child. In the poem‚ Plath is contemplating her relationship with her new child and it is clear she has mixed emotions of apprehension and awe. The opening line of the poem introduces her first impressions of the child
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Literary Analysis of "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath In her poem‚ “Mirror‚ ” Sylvia Plath uses the mirror as a symbol of reflecting truth to further prove the theme that lies can distort one’s true sense of identity. Plath begins the poem by describing how truthful the mirror is. The mirror is something that has no opinion‚ but acts as a painting of the truth from which opinions of the world are formed. The mirror can’t be cruel but only truthful‚ and has a “four cornered
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INITIATION-Sylvia Plath - Initiation is a story of group exclusivity‚ self exploration and personal transformation of a girl in Lansing High. It is the story of Millicent‚ who discovers that being an individual offers more opportunities than being part of a sorority. In Initiation‚ the author‚ Sylvia Plath expresses the hardships Millicent undergoes to become a member of the elect. Millicent is forced to go through several rituals which decide whether she is capable of joining the sorority. At first
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Sylvia Plath may be referring to the gas chambers and crematoriums when she depicts that Lady Lazarus “melts to a shriek”. This metaphor is very descriptive as Lady Lazarus is imagining that she is burning with the Jews‚ and some readers may feel that the
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English‚ Poetry‚ Sylvia Plath‚ Essays READING THE POETRY OF SYLVIA PLATH CAN BE A DISTURBING EXPERIENCE Introduction: I agree with the above statement as for me reading Plath’s poetry was quite disturbing. The best poems to explain this experience are “Black Rook in Rainy Weather‚” “Finisterre‚” “Morning Song‚” “Child” and of course‚ “Poppies in July”. There are poems that aren’t quite as depressing‚ such as “Pheasant”‚ but certainly an unsettled atmosphere dominates throughout Plath’s work
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Hughes demonstrates his perspective towards his destructive relationship with Plath through The Minotaur. Violence is evident in the very opening when Plath ‘smashed’ Hughes’ ‘mother’s heirloom sideboard – Mapped with the scars of [his] whole life’. Here Hughes is expressing the damage deep inside him than the physical destruction by Plath; that he too has childhood ‘scars’. Hughes suggests that Plath’s over-reaction and violence reflects her unstable mind by the word ‘demented’ revealing his helplessness
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Women in our society are obsessed with personal appearance some would say. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” emphasizes just how much people care about their appearance. Mirrors tell the truth‚ but people have a hard time accepting it. I believe that Sylvia Plath uses the mirror as a living entity to convey the message that accepting oneself is a hard process‚ but everyone is capable of doing it. The poem’s title “Mirror” is very important because the mirror in the poem is the speaker. The poem allows
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"Cut" is one of Sylvia Plath’s best confessional poems.It has been dedicated to Susan O’Neill Roe‚Plath’s nurse and a close friend during the period of her single motherhood.It is narrated by a woman who has just cut her thumb while slicing an onion.It has been written in a free verse and has ten‚four-line stanzas. The poet begins by saying‚ "What a thrill".She considers having cut her thumb to be exciting and interesting.The top part of her thumb has been cut of and a small hinge of skin is left
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