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Sylvia Plath controversially uses German Holocaust imagery to portray her father as a nazi and herself as a Jew to reinforce her father’s cruelty and further distance herself from him. Plath makes it clear she knows very little about her father’s family and culture of origin, telling her father, “I never could tell where you / Put your foot, your root.” All she knows about her father is that he is of German

momentary escape route from her otherwise troubled mental state; keeping her more or less sane to survive the wild, twisted world she built around her. The genre of Confessional Poetry fit Sexton like a glove. She enrolled for workshops from Robert Lowell at the Boston University and made close acquaintances with the likes of Sylvia Plath and George Starbuck, meanwhile enhancing her only too verbally extrovert spirit. Over countless martinis at the Ritz-Carlton, the two women compared suicide attempts

Amy Lowell’s poem, “Decade” shows how a person can go from infatuation or “puppy love” to pure love and admiration. Lowell demonstrates this through her use of similes and imagery. You start off by reading the title, “Decade”. Lowell uses this title to describe the passage of time that happens throughout the poem. Although this poem is considered short, ten years have passed. Lowell also demonstrates a passage of time by changing the tenses in which she speaks. In the first stanza she uses past

The Struggle of Women in Lowell’s Patterns and Sorrell’s From a Correct Address     "Woman is not born," feminist Andrea Dworkin wrote. "She is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so." Dworkin’s quote relates to women throughout history who have been forced to conform. Although women can be regarded highly in society, representing

Samerawit Winnie Dr. Oxendinex English 1302 27 April 2015 Taxi The Poem Taxi by Amy Lowell is about the pain of leaving her loved one; the poem describes her emotions as she is figuratively and physically is being taken away from her love in the middle of the night. As she rides away, she is fighting leaving her loved one. Against her separation from her loved one. In the evident love affair, the poet is displays the forces her and the lover to part. She is protesting against her separation from

Amy Lowell was a leader of the Imagists movement. She was influenced by John Keats and gathered a selection of his works. Lowell began to write after her brothers published books of their own, but she focused on poetry. The detail in Lowell’s poetry related to describing and environment or a person could help the reader better understand what is happening in the poem and include the reader as if they were actually there experiencing what the narrator or speaker is experiencing. Her choices develop

In “September, 1918”, Amy Lowell shows her readers an interesting and illuminating poem. That war can be an ugly time and the people that experience it often seems to live in a “broken world” (19). To fight an evil, sometimes war is needed, nonetheless it is still costly to the people living through the war. Some in a literal sense, like soldiers fighting in a war, while some in a physical sense by the world that they now see and live in. I find the poem truly interesting though, in how the author

At one point or another in one’s lifetime, people let go one thing to try and move on to something bigger and better, whether it’s a new job or new way of life. In its entirety, modernism is similar. It can be defined as moving away from the traditional creations and activities towards news tasks formed by the individualism and freedom within a man or woman. For instance, in the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker eventually moves on from his previous set of ideas to something new. Similarly

Hi Zoe, I hope you’re well, it was great to visit your offices this week and learn about Platts in much greater detail. In order to move forward I just wanted to provide you with a summary of our findings and the subsequent actions which now need to take place. Just a reminder of the objective we set out to achieve this week: For Team Gilroy to immerse itself in Platts’ business over 2 days, with the purpose of creating the messaging and plans for 3-4 campaigns. To nurture positive perceptions

Frustration’s Armored Aroma Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell and The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop are two closely related poems. Both share the theme of an animal carrying with it natural defenses, and the image of an isolated spectator. However, there is one important contrast between these poems: The Armadillo portrays a creature who cannot comprehend the events destroying the life about it, whereas the speaker in Skunk Hour understands, possibly too well, the events affecting its life. By using