an intense expression of feelings and ideas which reflect the joys and struggles of the person writing it. We use it to convey love‚ to mourn a loss‚ tell a story‚ or to say the things we are afraid to tell an actual person. Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath don’t write sonnets. These two poets clearly used poetry as a cathartic release for the troubles of their lives. Their struggles with even the rudimentary‚ plagued them throughout their short lifetime. Life and death being in constant conflict
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Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath is known as the poet of confession. Her life is strongly connected to her works. She uses poetry as a way to confess her feelings‚ to express and release her pain in life. “Mirror” is one of her most famous poems. Sylvia Plath wrote the poem in 1961‚ just two years before her actual suicide. After suffering a miscarriage‚ she realized that she was pregnant again. She and her husband moved to a small town and their marriage began going worse. The poem
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one of America’s most famous poets‚ Sylvia Plath’s works have long been discussed and analyzed amongst literary professionals and laymen alike. In Plath’s poem “Daddy”‚ arguably one of her most important works‚ she presents a piece chock full of symbols‚ imagery‚ and themes worth discussing. In the poem‚ the speaker is presumably a young woman speaking to her father. Today‚ many readers make the assumption that “Daddy” is actually more of an autobiography for Plath‚ and it is considered to be a part
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it means to age. Sylvia Plath’s poem‚ Mirror‚ is a poem that deals with the truths and lies in the struggle a woman goes through when grasping the reality of aging. The poem is appealing due to the ways in which Plath successfully uses personification‚ figurative language‚ and diction in her writing to emphasize this idea‚ as well how the concept of keeping up appearances and aging are relevant topics for many women in modern day culture. One of the many literary devices Plath utilizes in the poem
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going to be it could be your sister‚ mother‚ grandmother‚ and so on. That’s how I think Sylvia Plath “Daddy” is about how she lost that one person she was close to and just couldn’t handle it. As you read on I’m going to be telling you what I think about the poem‚ and how Sylvia Plath use her poem “Daddy”‚ to show her emotion towards her dad death. The poem is told in first person which is Sylvia Plath who lost her father at the age eight‚ at a time when she still adored him unconditionally
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Sylvia “A White Heron” In “A White Heron”‚ there was a young girl named Sylvia‚ for the first eight years of her life she had lived in a city environment. Sylvia then came to live with her grandmother in a country setting. This is where Sylvia became alive and one with nature. During her travel through the country side one morning she noticed a man who was searching for a white heron that he had seen a few weeks ago. At first Sylvia was scared of this man‚ he carried a gun and killed white heron’s
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brings this environment to vital life in a really amazing way • The speaker is the one who appears vulnerable‚ nature is her attacker. She refers to them in a “grandmotherly disguise‚” this is a reference to the fairy-tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Plath is taking the innocence and naivety of this familiar story and turning it into something rather sinister. By referring to the sheep as “grandmotherly‚” the speaker becomes red riding hood and therefore becomes the victim‚ nature to the speaker is not
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of Cathy Song’s “The Youngest Daughter” is about the youngest daughter of six growing old along with her mother. The title on the poem is also ironic because Song uses imagery to show that the daughter is no longer young. Song also uses using imagery daughter’s skin tone lacking sunlight to symbolize the isolation the daughter has because she is caring for her mother. The mother and daughter have a co-dependent relationship with each other‚ even though the daughter resents caring for her sickly
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Critical Analysis: The Chief’s Daughter In The Chief’s Daughter‚ Chief Onyeka had planned out a life for his daughter‚ Adaeze‚ while she was away in London gaining her education. She was never to be married and was to stay home to take care of her father and take over his businesses. The Chief thought her to be most suitable for the position as it was a tradition in their tribe to have the chief’s favorite daughter stay home never to be married‚ but sending children abroad to learn in the
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gets remarried to Hanae‚ the antagonist of “Silent Spring”. Hanae is an unsympathetic woman and also self-centered like Hideki. Yuki and Hideki had a weak relationship before the death of Shizuko; this caused Hideki to never truly understand his daughter Yuki making it hard for his new wife Hanae. Hanae hates Yuki and treats her badly and becomes the wicked stepmom to Yuki‚ causing Yuki to avoid going home whenever she can. Yuki gets extremely involved with school. “Silent Spring” is the story of
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