Altogether‚ based on the analysis of the decaying body metaphor we came to the conclusion that the body was in fact a metaphor for the speaker’s soul. We’ve all had an experience with death large or small‚ whether it was actually losing someone close to you‚ someone distant‚ someone you’ve never known or perhaps your experience was as distant as sitting on your couch and hearing something on the news. Whichever it is‚ death is nothing new‚ it’s something that is unavoidable and therefore something
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a worthy adversary swaddled. Cut may seem a little dull‚ but her sharp wits are what makes this an optimal choice for the title poem. By borderline over-reading some of the lines‚ the poem is apt to describe one of Sylvia Plath’s suicide attempts‚ “I have taken a pill to kill”‚ the poem also used a metaphor referring to a pill‚ which was the root of Sylvia’s first/second suicide attempt‚ the poem manifests different images from her other poems and coats the diction and syntax in a little bit of humor
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Stringency: A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit. Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details The narrator makes reference to ‘a stake in your fat black heart’ and vampire imagery is clearly used here as vampire can only be killed with a stake through the heart. The stress falling on each word is like each pound and thrust of the stake. In addition‚ monosyllabic words create force and energy. The sentence is plosive and
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breath or achoo". However‚ "thirty" (years)‚ has reveled her unwillingness to leave her father. Most children who have a bad relations with their parents can terminate the bond and move on with their lives as they grow up. Plath’s father "died before I (she) got the chance" and the unresolved relationship followed her and she let it grow until it consumed
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MUSIC – UNIT II Lesson 1- Music of the Romantic Period A. Vocal Forms * Recitative and Aria * Opera B. Instrumental Form * Sonata * Chamber Music * Concerto * Ballet * Suite Lesson 2- The Composers of the Romantic Period 1. Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) – turned poems into music. He is the father of German Lieder. 2. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) – a German composer‚ pianist and conductor. 3. Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) – is the creator of romantic
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Analysis of the Edge by Silvia Plath Sylvia Plath wrote the poem “Edge” six days prior to committing suicide on 11th day of February1963. According to Alexander (1991:214) the poem is alleged to be the author’s last work. The form bears an exciting feature: It has ten stanzas‚ with each having only two lines‚ seized in an enjambment. The second line of every stanza is at all times half of the building and denotation of the first line of the subsequent stanza. Therefore‚ the break of verse
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The use of Personification and Metaphor in ‘Mirror’ In the Poem ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath‚ there is a continuing theme of change. In the beginning the changes are simple‚ like the acts of day turning to night‚ but at the end we see the life changes of a woman in particular. Through the use of metaphor and personification in the poem‚ Plath creates images of water‚ reflections‚ and colors as having human characteristics to emphasize the strong theme of change throughout the poem. From the beginning
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yourself and frightened because the rest of the world expects something completely different from you - something you cannot give them. Something you don’t want to give them‚ if it were your choice. This is a highly auto-biographical account by Plath of a young girl finding that when she should be most excited about her life‚ she instead finds that things aren’t what she expected‚ and that the culture of the 1950’s doesn’t seem to allow for all that she wants‚ which begins her descent into depression
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Sylvia Plath and Unrelated Text The inner journey is a metaphysical process in which an individual travels into their own psyche often resulting in form of self realization. Although the journey is not physical‚ an inner journey is a powerful tool in which one can enhance their knowledge of the world and their own human nature‚ commonly encountering imaginative obstacles which assist in the individual’s self-realization. The texts that I will use to illustrate the inner journeys are “You’re” and
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In the short story‚ “Initiation”‚ Sylvia Plath utilizes Millicent and the sorority girls to imply the theme that conformity for popularity is not better than being one’s own self. Following Millicent through the hazing period or ‘initiation’ of a sorority-like high school social group‚ the reader witnesses Plath’s changing of the character. In the beginning of the story‚ Plath describes the protagonist in the basement of a house‚ detailing how it felt “dark and warm‚ like the inside of a sealed jar”(1)
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