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    The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath

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    before college‚ yet college has a great impact on the suicide rate of young adults. In The Bell Jar‚ written by Sylvia Plath‚ the main character‚ Esther Greenwood‚ struggles with suicidal depression on top of being a working college student‚ something Plath relates to entirely. Many people

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    "Mirror": Reflections of Truth In Sylvia Plath ’s poem "Mirror"‚ the reader takes a look into the messages presented and compares them with the reflections that are cast in a mirror and images in a lake. When reading this poem‚ we discover that the speaker is the actual reflection that gives the interpretation of its views. The first interpretation is shown as a mirror on the wall "I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions." (1)‚ second as the water in the lake because she states "Now

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    Analyzing Sylvia Plath ’s Writing Style through Her Poem‚ Mirror Sylvia Plath ’s unique literary style has been appreciated more and more since her death by suicide in 1963. She has been hailed as a kind of "archangel of confessional poetry" (Drennan 1184)‚ and her poetry has been described as being "at once confessional‚ lyrical‚ and symbolic" (Hinkle 920). The styling that has led to the continuity of her art and its relevance to society can be attributed to many factors and techniques common

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    Lady Lazarus

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    years‚ but I have three poems that are my favorite there are "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath. "Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" by Robert Frost and "Driving to town late to mail a letter" by Robert Bly. These poems are my favorite because I can relate in some aspects on a personal level in "Lady Lazarus"‚" Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening" and "Driving to town to mail a letter" reminds of nature. Sylvia Plath is one of my favorite female authors because he uses symbolism‚ imagery

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    Ted Hughes

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    path of study to archaeology and anthropology. Ted Hughes graduated with a master’s degree in 1959‚ Hughes had many peculiar jobs while occasionally publishing poems in university poetry magazines. At Cambridge he met and married U.S. poet Sylvia Plath in 1956. Hughe’s first book of poems‚ Hawk in the Rain‚ was published in 1957 to immediate acclaim‚ winning the Harper publication contest. Over the next 41 years‚ he would write upwards of 90 books‚ and win numerous prizes and fellowships.

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    Cited: Bonds‚ Diane. "The Separative Self in Sylvia Plath ’s The Bell Jar." Women ’s Studies. Vol. 18. Gordon and Breach Science‚ 1990. 49-64. Print. Plath‚ Sylvia. The Bell Jar. New York City: Harper & Row‚ 1971. Print.

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    Poetry Essay

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    The main relationship in the two poems “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is portrayed by the bond between a father and his child. Though both poems have the same overall subject‚ they can be perceived differently. In “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath represented the relationship through a dark demeanor. While in “My Papa’s Waltz” it had a lighter perception. In “Daddy” the poem goes through stages of dislike and anger. It starts off as if saying the child is done keeping the

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    A not so famous but still important oceanographer‚ a scientist who spends her whole job under water. This scientist’s name is Sylvia Earle. Sylvia Earle attended a university and went to college for about four to five years. Sylvia Earle decided to become an oceanographer when she was just in middle school. She knew she loved the sea since she was little. Sylvia Earle was born on August 30th‚ 1935. She is currently 81 years old and was born in Gibbstown Greenwich‚ Township New Jersey. She

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    SYLVIA PLATH - A ROMANTIC AMONG CONFESSIONALISTS. There is no denying the fact that Sylvia Plath is connected with the confessional movement but she differs from other confessional poets in some respects. She was quick enough to sail enthusiastically in the direction of the tide of Confessionalism. Yet‚ not as wholeheartedly as Anne Sexton did‚ or was pensive restraint as W. D. Snodgrass or with as formidable gusto of self-aggrandizement with which John Berryman exposed himself in his “Dream

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    that there are things more important that the truth. The truth may also be covered up because it is difficult for people to cope with. These ideas are explored in Joe Wright’s film Atonement and the Poems ‘Homecoming’ by Bruce Dawe and ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath. All texts are post modernism texts. In Joe Wright’s film Atonement the idea of the truth depends on an individual’s perspective is explored. The truth is many-sided and everyone’s perception of what they believe to be the truth may be different

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