lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) -- Sylvia Plath‚ Smith College‚ 1954 The above metaphor appears in an amazing poem written by Sylvia Plath. It relates something everyone does everyday‚ blinking‚ and turns it into something so sorrowful and thoughtful and deep. When reading this poem‚ "Mad Girl’s Love Song‚" I get a glimpse of the immensely troubled yet astounding life that Plath led. Although she only had one book‚ The Bell Jar‚ published during her short
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Sylvia Plath was once a happy woman with a spouse and her two kids. She was well-known for her poetry. Love was one of the things that was a part of her so much because as you read some of her poetry it stood in them. Sylvia seen love as unreal. With all her writings she inspire many people. Cherie Chetyrbok a fan of Sylvia once said “I have been Sylvia Plath fan since i was teen. I still love her‚ and amazed with her talent. Some say she did not get treatment because it might have diluted her talent
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Lazarus”. Death is very much a universal theme and one present in numerous poems written by Sylvia Plath. The subject of death‚ and consequently Plath’s work‚ can therefore relate to everyone as it is relevant to all humanity‚ nobody is exempt. It can be seen that Plath had a preoccupation with death‚ it has been said that she was attracted to it like “moths to an electric light bulb” . Indeed‚ Plath attempted suicide on several occasions throughout her life‚ finally succumbing to her “passionate
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Sylvia Plath is known for her remarkably personal poetry that explores heavy topics. The American poet was intelligent and was compelled to write poetry. She wrote her first poem when she was only eight years old‚ and published hundreds more before her suicide on February 11‚ 1963. Despite her success‚ Plath went through many struggles that ultimately affected her poetry. Her German father‚ Otto Plath‚ died a long and painful death in 1940. She told her mother that she would never speak to God again
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Sexton and Sylvia Plath were both great minds‚ creative individuals‚ and some of the greatest poetic individuals of the twentieth century. Though Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were great poets‚ they were also obsessed with death‚ darkness‚ and plagued with manic depression. They yearned for death‚ and both were able to achieve their life goal of dying. They’re poetry is a direct result of their morbid minds and the strange obsessions they shared during they’re several years of friendship. Sylvia Plath
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Spinster The poem Spinster as the title explicitly suggests‚ tells the story of a woman still unmarried beyond the age of marrying. The title also suggests that the narrator wants a life without men‚ showing she wants control. The poem juxtaposes the order of the seasons to show how this affects the narrator’s desperation to keep control. The structure of this poem is consistent. There seems to be a repetitive pattern reflected in every stanza in which the lines follow an order of short‚ long
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by Sylvia Plath There is a specific difference between the gender and sex of an individual. The gender of a person refers to whether they identify as male or female socially. The sex of an individual regards their internal organs and chromosomes. In the 1950’s‚ the people of America were divided into extremely specific groups of male or female. Depending on a persons gender group‚ they were expected to follow certain rules and theories of living. In the novel The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath‚ the
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In poems of Sylvia Plath‚ entitled “Lady Lazarus” and “Daddy” some elements are similar‚ including used hostile imagery‚ gloomy atmosphere as well as recurring theme of suicide‚ but the poems differ in respect of the speaker’s point of view and attitude towards addressed person or unfavorable surroundings. These elements are employed by Plath in order to intensify the impact on her audience and convey all extreme emotions. Another issue that is considered to be worthy of thinking over is the question
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telephone poles‚ threaded together by wires. I counted one‚ two‚ three ... nineteen poles‚ and then the wires dangled into space‚ and try as I would‚ I couldn’t see a single pole beyond the nineteenth."(Plath 123) This quote fully embodies the whole mood of the book‚ The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath. The main character Esther is constantly at war with herself‚ she can’t figure out what to work towards or where her life is going. She is unable to see past the nineteenth post in her life‚ it’s as if her
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quite as depressing‚ such as “Pheasant”‚ but certainly an unsettled atmosphere dominates throughout Plath’s work. Main text The theme explored in “Black Rook in Rainy Weather” is the lack of inspiration and the depression that arises therefore. Plath is in a state of desperation‚ she describes her life as a “season of fatigue” (part of the poems psychic landscape) with “brief respites from fear of total neutrality.” Her life is empty as she perceives it‚ to the extent that the most banal things
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