each other. The author also uses a historical allusion to these two significant characters in history that exgerrates the magnititude of the unhealthy relationship. HOMEWORK (or when you are finished in class) Find the poems “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath‚ “Stop all the Clocks” by W. H Auden or “Let me not to the Marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare and explain what you think it is saying about the relationship depicted. Is it healthy or unhealthy? Why? Daddy- The poem suggests that
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one stanza (despite the fact the Blackberry-picking is noticeably longer). The lines in each poem do not follow a pattern in term of lengths which could be a representation of life’s unexpected ups and downs. On the other hand Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath is written in three stanzas unlike the other two poems‚ however‚ all three poems have a line which changes the tone of the overall poem whether it be to represent the early signs of death ‘But only so an hour’ or ‘The only thing to come now is
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myth of the reincarnating phoenix‚ (a mythical bird that burns alive and then reborn in the ashes). The next decade will be different for the speaker because she plans to "eat" the men‚ or doctors‚ so they cannot revive her next time she faces death. Plath describes a personal truth. She was ten when she tried it for the first time and the second time had meant to do it earnestly. But they pulled her back into
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minimal yet possible with a little flick of hope. The fear of drowning in the depths of the ocean constraint one from relinquishing the support of a life preserver. Similarly‚ the main character; Esther Greenwood‚ in the novel; The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ experiences several external and internal conflicts throughout the novel in the hope of discovering her true identity‚ the role she wants to play as a women in the 1950’s and the societal ‘Bell Jar’ that she’s expected to conform about. The following
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Conflict is the battle between what you feel and what you know‚ forcing you to create arguments in your mind‚ with others and with society. In Reconstructing Amelia self versus self is a big conflict in the aspects of suicide and decision-making‚ character versus character conflicts between friends and leaders‚ and lastly character versus society becomes a conflict of what is acceptable. Amelia is a fifteen-year-old girl who‚ throughout her telling her story before proclaimed “suicide” is offered
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A Cinderella Story The poem “Cinderella” by Sylvia Plath is a Shakespearean sonnet outlining a distressing moment for the tragic maiden Cinderella. This poem illustrates the impermanence of beauty and youth through contrast and images. All happiness‚ however satisfying‚ must eventually end‚ resulting in suffering and desperation. Love and youth‚ like all things‚ are impermanent and will eventually wilt. The speaker states‚ “Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall” (7)‚ using an onomatopoeia “flicker”
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Journal Themes of English Literature Ana Sofia Teixeira Moreira‚ 65216 13/12/2012 David Callahan Introduction This is a kind of work that I like very much to do because of help me to remember and memorize everything that I learned and help me to broaden my vocabulary. In this journal I’m going to do a brief analysis of everything that I learned in classes‚ poems‚ films‚ magazines‚ authors‚ books and other things. My objectives in this journal are not only get a good mark but also‚ as
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-Chaucer was basically involved in espionage and also fought in and was ransomed in a war. -Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost. -John Bunyan spent more than 10 years in jail which is when he started writing Pilgrim’s Progress. -Daniel Defoe‚ first novelist (as we know them today)‚ invented modern journalism. -John Dryden‚ writer of great satire‚ was Jonathan Swift’s cousin. -I didn’t know Dickens was an actor (and accomplished at that)…I don’t really know much about him
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write a 3-4 page poetry analysis in which you analyze the use of literary elements in one of the assigned poems listed: “America” (Claude McKay); “We Wear the Mask” (Paul Laurence Dunbar); “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Langston Hughes); “Mirror” (Sylvia Plath); “The Bean Eaters” (Gwendolyn Brooks); “To The Mercy Killers” (Dudley Randall); “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (Dylan Thomas). Your purpose is to explicate (interpret) and analyze (examine) one poem‚ defending your interpretive claim
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Compare the ways in which Shakespeare and Plath explore the theme of mortality in Hamlet and Lady Lazarus. In both Lady Lazarus and Hamlet the semantic field of mortality and death can be clearly seen. Hamlet’s second soliloquy‚ ‘To be or not to be’ can be found in act three‚ when Polonius and 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
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