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“Lady Lazarus” is a poem by Sylvia Plath, written in 1962 shortly before her death in early 1963, and published posthumously by her husband, poet Ted Hughes, in 1965 in the collected volume Ariel. “Lady Lazarus” is a poem about suicide as a rebirth, and was in part inspired by Plath's own life and draws heavily on Plath's lifelong struggle with bipolar depression and suicidal feelings, and uses holocaust imagery to paint a bleak portrait of suicide and hopelessness. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston

Many people in the depression ran out of many ran out of money very quickly so they did not have a lot at times. In the poem “Debt’’ it says, “ Daddy is thinking about taking a loan from Mr. Roosevelt ….”. This quote means he didn’t have enough money for his crops and he [the dad] needed money to replenish his crops. During the the Great Depression lots of people probably saved every

overflows with pens and pencils. Who wants to mix chemicals, lick rocks, stare into a microscope, or sing about the water cycle? I would much rather read. It is the popular controversy of S.T.E.M. versus the arts. Which will win? She scoffs at my poems, but I smirk at her bracelet that shows the periodic table. While she balances chemical equations, I break words into morphemes. I read Whitman discovering the unity of nature while she reads about the insects and geology formations in nature. Thoreau

Sylvia Plath is one of the most controversial American poet during the 20th century. Majority of her poems dealt with depression, anxiety and death. Plath has dealt with many life changing encounterings at a young age, from her father’s dead, attempted suicides, miscarriage, divorce, to Plath actually killing herself. Which severely affected her well being and is what many people characterizes her poetry to be intense and thought provoking. Based on Plath’s biography and analyzing her poetry

Both poems make allusions to Greek deities as a metaphor for the common perception that the father is the dominant one in a family. The numerous attempts of the speaker’s infatuation with “The Colossus” with restoring the fallen statue and Olds’ comparison of

subject to 1960’s patriarchy, Plath inevitably suffered from both domestic and professional claustrophobia. Married to the successful poet, Ted Hughes, she was incessantly reminded of these restraints; her poetry, looking particularly at her ‘Collected Poems’, illustrated her forced subjugation and consequential identity loss. By considering Plath’s attitude towards marriage and domesticity in ‘The Applicant’ (1962), and their impact upon both her emotional freedom and sense of purpose in ‘Morning Song’

Mental Illness' Effects in Sylvia Plath's Life and Work Sylvia Plath was an American author and poet. Her death at the age of 30 by suicide was the end of her long struggle with mental illness throughout her life, chronicled in her most famous work, her fictional, but inspired by her life novel, The Bell Jar, cited for its feminist themes and exploration of mental illness. Plath is considered one of the greatest poets and novelists of the 20th century, whose works were influenced by her mental illnesses

economy to an industrial economy based on textile factories, steel mills, and new inventions. The mechanization of America required an energy source, and that energy source was coal. Diane Gilliam Fisher, a sixty-one-year-old American poet, uses her poems in Kettle Bottom to tell the world about the mining community. Kettle Bottom by Diane Fisher explores the history of West Virginia coal miners’ struggle against mine owners as the miners fight for better working conditions and pay, the emotional strain

and an illustrator. He spent his early life serving in the U.S. Army during 1950. He was a cartoonist for many different magazines, and when he joined Playboy, his work became national known. While working at Playboy he started his career of writing poems and songs. Some of his best known works were The Giving Tree, The Missing Piece, and Where the Sidewalk ends. He is also Grammy winner for his song “A Boy Named Sue” which a very famous name in music had performed for him, and he was also nominated

as their own. She does this while also interjecting the experiences she has with her new family. Born as Bertha Kaye Batts in 1960, Kaye Gibbons was the child of a farmer and grew up poor (Disheroon-Green). Her first novel, Ellen Foster, began as poem that eventually grew into something much greater (“Kaye Gibbons”). After the novel published in 1987, Gibbons won two literary awards, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and a citation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation (“Overview: Ellen Foster”)