of maturity is asking for and finding help when needed. We should find help when we need it‚ unless help will not find us. None of us can go it alone‚ so we should not let our fear of being judged stop us from asking for help when we need it. Rona Barrett once said‚ “The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it.” Asking for help
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began to shake the rigidity of conservative beliefs. This essay will look at Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ The Applicant‚ written in 1962 to explore the gender roles in early 1960’s society. The theme of Plath’s poem is the inequitable idea of gender roles in early 1960’s society‚ men were expected to be the breadwinner and women were expected to cook and clean. In addition‚ the poem is a reflection of the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes‚ illustrating the absurdity of their relationship. In
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In the letter by Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ an English poet‚ she supplicates to Napoleon III to reinstate Victor Hugo back into France after getting exiled due to his writings being seen as offensive toward the government. The intended purpose of the letter is to change Napoleon’s mind about exiling Hugo from France‚ in order to retain one of the most admired and impressive poets from France. Through the use of parallel structure and reverent tone Browning creates reasoning on why the Emperor of
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developing baby. Babies born to mothers who are depressed may also be less active‚ show less attention and are more irritable and agitated than babies born to moms who are not depressed (“American Pregnancy Association”). In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ her choice of words for the poem seem to express her feelings of depression toward the issue of her pregnancy. Plath chose many metaphors to describe her pregnancy. From her choice of words‚ one gets the feeling as if she is not enjoying
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The Power of Happiness As Christopher Morley once said ‚“there is only one success - to spend your life in your own way”. Similarly‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning and William Wordsworth both have successfully happy lives‚ although they are consoled in different ways. In both “How Do I Love Thee” by Elizabeth Browning and “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” by William Wordsworth‚ there is a common theme of happiness depicted through the use of diction‚ however‚ Browning presents reasons as to why she
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The poetic techniques employed by Plath succeed in making the world of her poetry a strange and terrifying one. I agree with the above statement as I feel that the world of Plath’s poetry is made strange and often terrifying by her use of poetic techniques. In my opinion the poetic techniques that aid most in making the world of her poetry strange and terrifying would be the use of allegory‚ imagery‚ similes and metaphors and also the use of words with ominous connotations. The poems that I will
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Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a poem that takes the reader through Plath’s life with an oppressive father. Through detailed‚ five-line stanzas she gives examples to compare her life to that of a Jew or to the lady that lived in a shoe. Plath uses visual imagery of a Nazi‚ in particular‚ Adolf Hitler to describe her father’s oppressive ways. The poem gives off a very weary perception of Plath fighting emotionally to get away from the life of silence and abuse. Moving deeper through Plath’s poem‚ she depicts
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techniques have changed as time progresses‚ authors have wrote about the same hardships in their work while still adding their own unique voices. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath and Stoner by John Williams‚ each author explores social expectations of women in post-war America illustrating the influences on literature and its audience. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath‚ she demonstrates a first person point of view on what it is like to be held to the expectations of childbirth in 1959. This
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A Year’s Spinning written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is telling a story from the point of view of a woman who tells of the struggles she had endured over the course of a year. The poem closely ties in with the view of women during the time-period. During this time period women were primarily homemakers and any unmarried women outside of the ideal age of marriage with no children were considered to be spinsters. In this poem‚ a woman is doing her spinning on the porch and eventually a man stops
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The diction‚ tone‚ and structure of Sylvia Plath’s poem “Edge” create disturbingly calm imagery and symbolism that illustrate the peace and perfectness found in the finality of death. The poem opens with diction emphasizing the unsettling imagery that carries throughout the poem. The detached third-party speaker looks on a “dead body” with “bare feet” “perfected” and wearing the “smile of accomplishment” under a white “toga.” This raw‚ pure and positive diction in the presence of suicide creates
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