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    Sylvia Plath Poetry

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    Plath notes: Why does Sylvia Plath’s poetry have textual integrity (i.e. unity)? * Context – Plath’s and yours * Informed PERSONAL understanding IDEAS * CONSTRUCTION * LANGUAGE FEATURES * SIGNIFICANCE Context: 1. Plath wrote in the early 1960’s 2. Plath suffered from depression and Bi-Polar‚ pervious to her main period of writing‚ she had on one occasion attempted suicide. 3. Plath loves and cares for her children‚ maternal instincts and influence. 4. Plath

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    Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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    In the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she

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    representation of the truth. The film text ‘Sylvia’ (2003) and Ted Hughes poems ‘The Shot’ and ‘Sam’ (Birthday Letters) display conflicting perspectives of the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes‚ which has become world renowned as a long standing literary controversy. The ‘Birthday Letters’ poems harbour poignant emotions such as pain and self-pity‚ whereas the film ‘Sylvia’ uses visual techniques to convey the anguish and torment endured by Plath. These two representations inexorably challenge

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    TJ Waller Mrs. Pinchback AP English 12 18 November 2013 Explication One: “Mad Girl’s Love Song” “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced‚ which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the

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    Analysis Of Sylvia Plath

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    Sylvia Plath lived a short‚ disturbed life‚ and much of her misfortune she has traced to her father. After her dad Otto Plath died when she was ten‚ she was able to identify his overwhelming presence in many other experiences she had during the remainder of her life. Coming from a German-born teacher‚ Sylvia Plath uses angry and emphatic language to identify the cruel and emotional experiences that the absence of her father has caused throughout her life‚ and she parallels his oppressive relationship

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    Metaphors By Sylvia Plath

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    specific emotional response through meaning‚ sound and rhythm. There are countless amounts of poetry out there and over 50 styles of poems written by poets. Sylvia Plath’s poetry usually contains extended metaphors‚ figurative analogies and usually has violent imagery in between clear‚ precise diction. In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ numerous metaphors reveal that women feel discouraged‚ restricted‚ and ambivalent about their pregnancies. Women feel discouraged when they are pregnant with

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    Daddy by Sylvia Plath

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    Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a poem that takes the reader through Plath’s life with an oppressive father. Through detailed‚ five-line stanzas she gives examples to compare her life to that of a Jew or to the lady that lived in a shoe. Plath uses visual imagery of a Nazi‚ in particular‚ Adolf Hitler to describe her father’s oppressive ways. The poem gives off a very weary perception of Plath fighting emotionally to get away from the life of silence and abuse. Moving deeper through Plath’s poem‚ she depicts

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    Daddy By Sylvia Plath

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    成绩 Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath 课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10 Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one‚ of course

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

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    be less active‚ show less attention and are more irritable and agitated than babies born to moms who are not depressed (“American Pregnancy Association”). In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ her choice of words for the poem seem to express her feelings of depression toward the issue of her pregnancy. Plath chose many metaphors to describe her pregnancy. From her choice of words‚ one gets the feeling as if she is not enjoying the fact that she is pregnant‚ nor is she looking forward to

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    Sylvia Plath Metaphors

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    the famous Poem of Daddy by Sylvia Plath has a significant meaning of the subject of marriage and gender issues‚ as she express a hatred for the two most important male figures in her life. In the summary of the poem who let the readers know her father was an abusive man who was a fascist and a nazi. Plath uses many figurative metaphors to describe him for example “ You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot”(Lines 1-3). Plath truly describes him as a black

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