Ted Hughes Essay

Mirror is a poem that is full of imagery, symbols, and riddles. It is straight-forward enough in the first stanza to be able to detect who the speaker is, but riddled enough in the second stanza to require an interpretation of the purpose, that’s what makes this poem so enticing. From the beginning to the end this poem contains many symbols, water being one of the first to appear. It is first described as unmisted, acting as a reflecting surface on the mirror. In the end, water takes on the position

While doing this research on Sylvia Plath , my range of authors I actually like has expanded. Learning that many authors suffer from mental illness leading to there work. While Sylvia's work was quite interesting and soul touching. She was suffering and nobody saw that, and if it was seen no action to help her was taken. However she has definitely grown my liking for poetry. Making me view poetry as an art. Her way of words were so smooth and touching. It was impossible for me to read a full poem

Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are two very alike women. Both were born in Massachusetts, both wrote poetry, and both committed suicide. A common factor that particularly stands out in these two women is that they both suffered some form of mental problem, but they used that to transfer it onto their writing. It was because of their depression that they were able to be so successful in their writing careers. But even after having poems and books published, that wasn’t enough to satisfy their happiness

Anne sexton (November 9, 1928- October 4, 1974) was an American poet who found love in poetry and was known for her highly personal confessional verse. She was born as Anne Gray Harvey to her mother and father Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Churchill Harvey. Anne sexton wrote about her long battles against depression, mania, and her suicidal thoughts, she looked to help people fight personal problems and ease their pain. Sexton suffered from severe mental illness for much of her life, her first manic

The acclaimed poet and writer, Meena Alexander, in an excerpt from her autobiography, “Fault Lines”, describes her scrambled upbringing and the effects it had on her. Meena Alexander’s purpose is to inform the audience of the effect of lack of absolute identity on her life. Meena Alexander manipulates syntax, simile, and metaphor to depict her convoluted identity and her confusion regarding her identity. Alexander manipulates the syntax in her autobiography to depict her self-perception as

In the novel Persepolis Marjane Satrapi not only grabs the reader’s attention with words, but also with detailed comic illustrations. The common saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is spot on in this story. The pictures bring the story to life but in particular page 70 really stood out to me. God often appears to Marjane throughout the story especially when she is having a hard time in her life. After a tragic death in the family instead of letting him comfort her she turns her back on him

Reality and conceptuality: Personal views of the sea in Sylvia Plath’s Point Shirley and Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach. Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach and Sylvia Plath’s Point Shirley are both poems that use the sea as a starting point to reflect about something else. The first one uses it as a mean to ponder on metaphysical subjects that trouble the narrator, concerns triggered by the vastness of the sea and the humbling and terrifying feeling it provokes. It ends with the conclusion that the only

Until six months ago, I was not a feminist. Yet I wasn’t exactly not one either. If asked, I’d probably say sure--I guess. (What’s the alternative, a bigot?). Mostly, though, I was indifferent. My political preoccupation was economics, and social issues seemed distant in importance. One October night, economic policy was the last of my concerns. A loner by nature, I'd long denied any need for close social relationships with same-age peers. But my mental composure unexpectedly fractured as I spun

Forough Farrokhzad was an Iranian poet who experienced ups and downs of life and grew up with her poems. She was born in 1935 in Tehran. She was really into Persian literature, so she began writing ghazals as she was a high school student. She got married after finishing High School and published her first verse, called The Captive in 1955. After that, Forough got divorced and a year later her second collection of poems, the wall, which was dedicated to her ex-husband was public. By the time she

Sara Teasdale was born on August 8th 1884. She was born in St.Louis Missouri. When she was younger she was home schooled, and grew up mostly around adults. In 1914 she got married to Ernst Filsinger. Her and husband moved to New York city around the 20’s. She won an award in 1918 called the Columbia University poetry society prize. This lter eventually became the pulitzer prize for poetry. In 1920 Sara Teasdale published a poem called “Flame and Shadow.” After this poem she only published two