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    Initiation Sylvia Plath

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    Chantal Chau Analysis of a Key Passage‚ Initiation by Sylvia Plath In Initiation by Sylvia Plath‚ the author suggests that conformity and having friends is a wonderful idea‚ yet the idea of having an individual identity and being an individual is stronger. In the excerpt‚ Millicent is slowly realizing that conforming and being a part of a sorority is not as exciting as it sounds‚ and being an individual offers more opportunities to become a unique person. Millicent is an average girl who no

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    "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath

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    Joshua Huling “Mirror” “Mirror” is a poem by Sylvia Plath. It is spoken in a first person style from the perspective of a mirror‚ and later a lake. A woman has been looking into both the mirror and the lake at her own reflection. She seems to be almost consumed with the reflection and later in life she is upset by what she sees‚ as she is ageing. The poem is rife with figurative language. After analyzing the poem‚ we find that the mirror is truth‚ indifferent to the woman’s ageing or what she

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    The Colossus. Sylvia Plath

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    This poem by Sylvia Plath was written in 1959 and gave name to her first collection of poems The Colossus and Other Poems in which it is already included. This collection was published in 1960 and since this moment she was recognized as a young new talent because of her poetry techniques. Regarding some biographical data‚ we should take into account that Otto Plath‚ that is Sylvia’s father‚ died after a long period of untreated diabetes when she had just eight years old. Facing the death of someone

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    Daddy, Sylvia Plath

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    language obscene / An engine‚ and engine / Chuffing me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In Daddy‚ Plath depicts herself as a victim‚ as she compares herself to a Jew and her father as a Nazi. She uses this train metaphor to depict herself as a victimized Jew who is being taken away to a concentration camp. Plath uses allusions to describe her father as Hitler‚ as it is written “And your neat moustache / And your Aryan eyes‚ bright blue”

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    * NAME: Sylvia Plath * OCCUPATION: Academic‚ Editor‚ Author‚ Poet * BIRTH DATE: October 27‚ 1932 * DEATH DATE: February 11‚ 1963 * EDUCATION: Smith College‚ Cambridge University * PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston‚ Massachusetts * PLACE OF DEATH: London‚ England Sylvia Plath was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ on October 27‚ 1932. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes‚ although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963‚ garnering accolades after

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    Sylvia Plath Surviving tragedies in a harsh reality is something only the strongest of souls can do. Sylvia Plath was not a strong soul. She sought comfort in the words of her poetry and in her book The Bell Jar‚ but it was not enough. She had a dark and sad life‚ and Sylvia was constantly depressed. These warning signs provided Plath with fuel for her poems‚ but what her family‚ and society did not realize was that her writings were a desperate cry for help‚ and help never came. Sylvia Plath‚ awakened

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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and short story writer. She was born in Boston Massachusetts on October 27th 1932. She struggled deeply with depression much of her adult life‚ stemming from the death of her father at age eight. Aside from her depression‚ Sylvia excelled academically at Smith College‚ and because of that went on to receive a Fulbright scholarship to the highly competitive Newham College in Cambridge. She continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the

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    The Fluidity of Sylvia Plath Gender Norms and Racial Bias in the study of the modern “Sylvia PlathSylvia Plath was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and short story writer. Born in Boston‚ she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes from 1956 until they separated in September 1962. They lived together in the United States and then England and had two children‚ Frieda and Nicholas

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    Edge Sylvia Plath

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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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    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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