Written Task 2 ONLY HL Written tasks One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course. (The Awakening‚ Katherine Mansfield short stories‚ Sylvia Plath Poetry‚ A Doll’s House‚ Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and Prejudice) The other must be based on material studied in the language option ( Media and Advertisement). Formal requirements for tasks 2 One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical
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anthropology‚ but remarkably published two poems‚ (one under his pseudonym‚ Daniel Hearing) getting him back in the swing of things. When he graduated he had several non-writing related jobs‚ but nothing serious. In 1956 Hughes met and married American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who was already a published poet with several awards. She supported him in his writings and together their poems were published in magazines like The Nation‚ Poetry‚ and The Atlantic. In 1957‚ with help from his wife‚ Hughes published
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Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath are widely recognized for their tremendous ability to write about unbelievably morbid‚ personal‚ and somewhat taboo topics in a way that makes readers unable to look away from the page. This idea is especially true in Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and Dickinson’s “I Felt a Funeral‚ in my Brain‚” as both poems deal with the morose matter of mental illness. By thoroughly examining these poems‚ it is clear that they reveal underlying themes of immense pain and suffering‚ as
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displays about 1200 objects which illustrate the history of Cambridge. The Arbury Coffin is one of the highlights of the gallery. It contains the bones of a woman‚ a shrew and a mouse thought to date from the fourth century AD. This coffin inspired the Sylvia Plath poem ‘All the Dead Dears’. The shrew and mouse bones found in the coffin of a well-to-do Roman woman in Arbury. Her ankle had been knawed. As you walk up the stairs‚ you will arrive the Maudslay Hall. It is the museum’s principle Anthropology
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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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Claudius are hiding behind a wall listening to how Hamlet responds to Ophelia. Although there is a huge time difference between when they were written it is surprisingly similar in its semantic field of vocabulary to Lady Lazarus written in the 1950s by Sylvia Plath. There is also a huge difference in the type of genre that the texts are and the intended audience for them. Hamlet was intended to be performed and so has many more emotions expressed and the need to be listened to and watched‚ but Lady Lazarus
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Anthony P. Schaible Ms. Hanna Frazier AP English 12 5 January 2013 Sharon Olds: From Psalms to Satan Says Movement: Sharon Olds is a confessional poet. The criteria of the confessional genre are subject matter that is deeply personal to the speaker or author. The work of Sharon Olds is almost exclusively her own personal experiences with her sisters and parents as well as her experiences with being a mother. The subject matter is also typically on taboo subjects such as sex which is also a
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born in Mytholmroyd‚ Yorkshire in 1930. After serving as in the Royal Air Force‚ Hughes attended Cambridge‚ where he studied archeology and anthropology‚ taking a special interest in myths and legends. In 1956 he met and married the American poet Sylvia Plath‚ who encouraged him to submit his manuscript to a first book contest run by The Poetry Center. Ted Hughes was very passionate by animals‚ nature‚ myths and he used them in drawing different types human behavior. In 1970‚ he published Crow
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Digging Summary The poem begins with our speaker at his desk‚ his pen poised to begin writing. He gets distracted by the sound of his father outside‚ working in the garden‚ and this sends our speaker into a spiral of memories about his father working in the potato fields when the speaker was a young boy. The memory stretches even further back to his grandfather and the hard work he did as a peat harvester (there’s all kinds of hard work going on). Eventually‚ our speaker snaps out of his daydream
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hand up" I swear was in my English class last year‚ and I have always been jealous of "the A’s." You would find me in the circle of creative writing students‚ sitting near whoever plays the lute‚ pulling at the grass and conversing about that new Sylvia Plath poem I ran across the other night in my grandpa’s old college notes. Besides the believability of the imaginary town‚ the wording of the poet‚ Collins‚ is alluring. In the second stanza he writes; I can see it nestled in a paper landscape
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