Metaphors by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for her confessional style of writing. Her poem ‘Metaphors’ was written in the 1960’s and expresses her self-loathing during pregnancy. Unlike many poets‚ Plath isn’t afraid to express her inner feelings throughout her work and explore herself within her poetry. In her poem ‘Metaphors’ Plath uses the ‘I’ voice to make her writing deeply personal and convey her pessimistic attitude towards her body image during pregnancy. ‘Metaphors’ is written
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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 of death. Plath finds
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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 with depression‚ and it’s evident from the poem that she blames it all on her father.
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"Cut" Sylvia Plath [CONTENT] Persona In terms of content the persona in "Cut" is Sylvia Plath herself. Plath was one of the first American women writers to refuse to conceal her true emotions. In articulating her aggression‚ hostility and despair in her art‚ she effectively challenged the traditional literary prioritization of female experience. Plath has experienced much melancholy and depression in her life. Scenario The scenario of the poem starts off in a seemingly domestic scene‚
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Sylvia Plath boldly set the bar for confessional poetry in the 1950s. Using nature as a theme in many of her poems‚ Plath externalised her internal demons in a unique way. The narrative voice in her “nature” poems illustrates Plath’s complicated relationship with the natural world. The reader can relate to this‚ and draw their own conclusion on humanity both in and out of nature. As time goes on‚ and Plath’s sanity becomes even more fragile‚ the narrator’s relationship with nature becomes more intimate
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had ‘Mum’ in the title) focuses on the relationship with the persona’s mother. It can be seen as a companion poem to ‘Daddy’ - written shortly before - and explores a similar theme – freeing the self from the (powerful‚ smothering) parent. |Sylvia Plath - Medusa | |
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“Daddy” – Sylvia Plath (Poetry Analysis 1) Plath‚ best known for her confessional poetry is credited to have written the poem “Daddy” in the year‚ 1962. However‚ it was posthumously published in 1965. The use of explicit imagery throughout the poem reflects her style. Using the Holocaust as a metaphor‚ Plath gives the poem its much-intended nightmarish quality suggestive of her complex relationship with her father‚ Otto Plath. “Daddy” is almost potentially autobiographical in the sense that it
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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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interpreting the work in a number of different ways. The poets John Keats‚ W.H. Auden‚ and Sylvia Plath all use these techniques in their poetry‚ with
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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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