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    Accelerated English 11 May 17‚ 2013 Sylvia Plath “I talk to God but the sky is empty.” Sylvia Plath was one of America’s greatest poets. She was best known for her dramatic‚ emotional poems inspired by deep continuous depression and multiple suicide attempts. Unfortunately‚ she succeeded in the early months of 1963. Sylvia Plath was born October 27‚ 1932 in Boston‚ Massachusetts; she had only one younger brother named Warren. From the very beginning Sylvia’s parents knew she was going to be

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    father died when she was eight and that’s when she started to change. She attempted suicide in college by overdosing on sleeping pills‚ but once she recovered she became successful in literacy. She wrote over 400 poem while in college. She married Ted Hughes in 1965‚ and a year later‚ at age 28 she published her first book‚ The Colossus‚ in England. She lived for a time in England and had a total of 2 children. Two years after the birth of their first child their marriage fell apart. Usually Sylvia

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    her father and the different people mentioned throughout the poem. Daddy has never been made into play or a film but a film has been made on Sylvia Plath. A 2003 film called Sylvia tells the story of the romance between Sylvia Plath and poet Ted Hughes. Although the film features the later part of the Sylvia Plath there are negligible references to her relationship with her father. I have chosen this poem because I find the imagery and symbolism in the poem quite fascinating. Sylvia comparing

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    many different ways. After the passing of her father‚ she continued to live a dreary life. She attempted suicide and eventually got married to Ted Hughes. He was a man that was known to be quite promiscuous and one of the biggest seducers in Cambridge. However‚ Plath continued to actively pursue a relationship with Hughes. It’s been said that Hughes was having an affair with another author and he and

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    Sylvia Plath Daddy Essay

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    his death drastically defined her social relationships and affected her poems. In 1956‚ she married English poet Ted Hughes and in 1960 when she was only 28 she wrote her first book The Colossus which was published in England. The poems in this book were clearly precise‚ well structured clearly showed the dedication Plath had showed towards her apprenticeship. Soon‚ she and Ted Hughes settled in a small English village in Devon. However the marriage broke apart in less than two years after the birth

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    The Jaguar, by Ted Hughes

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    jaguar‚ so that its brutality and energy is enhanced. The next stanza continues from stanza one and begins with ’lie still as the sun’. This phrase illustrates the ordinariness and dullness of the animals because of the sharp sounds of each word. Hughes again uses metaphors to appeal to the audience’s sense of sight in describing the boa constrictor as fossils‚ which strengthens the image of the animal as timeworn and ancient as a result of their captivity. Alliteration is immediately followed as

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    her work attracted the attention of many readers‚ who saw in her singular verse an attempt to catalogue despair‚ violent emotion‚ and obsession with death. Plath uses her poems to explore her own mental suffering‚ her troubled marriage to poet Ted Hughes‚ her unresolved conflicts with her parents‚ and the vision she has of herself. Plath utilises personification‚ and complex imagery to express her major themes concerning the unfair oppression of women‚ nature’s

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    “Elm”‚ written about her toxic marriage to poet Ted Hughes‚ mainly focuses on her struggle to recover from her husband’s infidelity. However‚ much like many of Plath’s other pieces‚ elements of the poem can be interpreted as referring to her ongoing battle with depression. A prime example of Plath’s writing

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    Daddy By Sylvia Plath

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    Of all the emotions‚ hatred is one of the most intense. It can manifest itself from simple notions such as skin tone‚ gender‚ or sexuality‚ but it can also stem from deep psychological traumas‚ which is present in Plath’s “Daddy”. Despite the complexity of 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

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    Sylvia Plath’s Psychic Landscapes In the following essay‚ I will examine the development of Plath’s poetry through analysis of major themes and imagery found in her description of landscapes‚ seascapes‚ and the natural world. Following the lead of Ted Hughes‚ critics today tend to read Sylvia Plath’s poetry as a unity. Individual poems are best read in the context of the whole oeuvre: motifs‚ themes and images link poems together and these linkages illuminate their meaning and heighten their power.

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