“I am vertical‚” 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
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deep psychological traumas‚ which is present in Plath’s “Daddy”. Despite the complexity of 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
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‘Plath’s poems seethe with anger‚ hope‚ desire and disappointment. Her poems reveal a perspective and a language use that are utterly unique’. Sylvia Plath poetry is unique because of her use of language and the perspective and themes she explores‚ creating powerful images and original metaphorical ideas to evoke a strong climax of feelings which express the struggles she experienced in her own personal life. Her poems ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Daddy’ are confessional poems that use contemporary form
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Sylvia Plath (October 27‚ 1932 – February 11‚ 1963) was an American poet‚ novelist and short story writer. Born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ she studied at Smith College and Newnham College‚ Cambridge‚ before receiving acclaim as a professional poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England‚ having two children together‚ Frieda and Nicholas. Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life‚[1] and in 1963 she committed
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As a prosperous‚ admired poet‚ Sylvia Plath considered her obsession with death and her failure of self-repair as an art form that she expressed through poetry. Due to the continuous disloyalty resulting in betrayal that Plath received throughout her life she repeatedly designated herself the role as a victim in a majority of her poems. This gives evidence in saying that Sylvia Plath was a troubled woman trying to deal with her dark nature that is shown in several poems that she wrote‚ specifically
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Rebecca Wayne Ms. Arnold English 3° May 1st‚ 2012 Sylvia Plath Research Paper What made Sylvia Plath think it was okay to hurt her mother and kids by committing suicide? Her whole life was a struggle‚ with all depression she went through. Sylvia getting denied‚ being depressed‚ the death of her father‚ and her miscarriage had pushed her to do what she had done. Sylvia had a rough childhood without her father‚ who passed away when she was eight years old. When she was refused admission to
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\ Garvin English 3‚ P.2 April 8‚ 2014 Detailed Analysis In the poem “Colossus” by Sylvia Plath‚ the late poet exemplifies the hole in her life due to her father’s early death with the elements of allusion‚ imagery‚ and the use of multiple analogies. These three rhetorical devices shape the overall emphasis of the poem. By creating a unique blend of these three rhetorical devices‚ Plath shows her readers just how dearly she needed a fatherly figure in her life. The most obvious example
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Art Imitating Life At the age of thirty Sylvia Plath committed suicide‚ she was a daughter‚ a wife‚ a mother‚ and a poet. Sylvia Plath made a tremendous impact on the world during her short life by expressing her life through poetry. Her professional life was full of great accomplishments‚ yet her personal life was full of even greater tragedies. In the documentary “Voices and Vision Sylvia Plath”‚ Plath was asked if there were any themes that attracted her as a poet. Plath responded by stating
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Sylvia Plath’s “You’re”‚ is a poem about an expectant mother and her experiences with being pregnant with her child. This poem employs lots of simile and metaphorical comparisons between things of nature that are not usually thought of in regards to pregnancy and babies. Plath’s use of similes and metaphors follows her throughout all her poetry but her use of metaphors in “You’re” shows a raw depiction of how she sees pregnancy. Sylvia Plath uses imagery and metaphors of nature to show a mother’s
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do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I ’ve a call." Sylvia Plath wrote these lines‚ from her poem "Lady Lazarus‚" in the winter of 1962 (Barnard 75)‚ only months before taking her own life at the age of thirty (Barnard 23). It is an oft quoted line‚ containing in it much of the ironic and morbid outlook for which she has become famous. Driven by intense perfectionism and plagued by the unnecessary death of her father‚ Sylvia Plath crafted deeply personal poetry that expresses a feeling
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