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In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” and “Lady Lazarus,” Plath displays her deepest emotions and concerns. Her beliefs completely contradicts her fathers so she has to deal with a lot of negative emotions throughout her life. Both of these poems were both written at the end of Plath’s life and really show her state of mind. Throughout her poems, we are able to see the motivation behind her feelings and her suicide attempts. “Daddy,” and “Lady Lazarus,” by Sylvia Plath are the closing notes to Plath’s grudges

people. There are many types of relationships, some functional and others far from being workable. I will demonstrate this through my texts of; Little Fugue, and Morning Song both poems written by Sylvia Plath; the movie, Love Actually; and the book, Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce. Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath is my first example of how we all perceive our different relationships. This poem is about Plath talking of her father and herself and the lack of communication between the two. Throughout

Sylvia isolates herself in nature and identifies herself as a person who prefers to be alone. While wandering in the woods and playing around with her cow, she “would look upon the cow’s pranks as an intelligent attempt to play hide and seek, as [she] had no playmates” (Jewett 196). Sylvia does not experience human interaction, besides her grandmother, due to being isolated in the countryside. However, she interacts with her best friend, Mistress Moolly the cow, as a way to fill in the need of

most becoming?” Sylvia Plath once asked in The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Plath 38). Any reader of Sylvia Plath can instantly recognize Plath’s dislike for her life and all that comes with it. Plath grew up with the realities of death in the forefront because of her father’s passing at a young age and her struggles with at least one mental illness. Much like her characters in her many works, Sylvia Plath struggled from mental illnesses, such as depression and, possibly, anxiety. Sylvia Plath is famously

Sylvia Plath the famous American writer from Boston, Massachusetts accomplished many great poems and short stories in her short life. One of the greatest quotes and a personal favorite is“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” By this quote she helped people rely more on themselves than on others. Even though Plath life was tragically cut short due to suicide, she made great accomplishments in todays life and her work is still used in everyday life. In many classrooms throughout

Sylvia Plath is best known for “the intense coupling of violent or disturbed imagery with the playful use of alliteration and rhyme in her work.” (poets.org). “Daddy,” one of Plath’s poems is a way for her to express her life story and allow others to see into it. Living in an abusive home, she was torn down daily. She makes it clear that her father was a male-dominating, evil individual. By constantly being in this environment, it ultimately affected her work. “Daddy” was written only months before

13th March, 2014 In the poem “Mirrors”, by Sylvia Plath the speaker accentuates the importance of looks as an aging woman brawls with her inner and outward appearance. Employing an instance of self refection, the speaker shifts to a lake and describes the discrepancies between inevitable old age and zealous youth. By means of sight and personification, shifts and metaphors, the orator initiates the change in appearance which relies on an individual’s decision to embrace and reject it.

Sylvia Plath is said to be one the most prodigious, yet interesting, confessional poets of her time. She was an extremely vital poet of the post-World War II time period and expressed her feelings towards her father and husband through her poetry. Plath’s mental illness had a dramatic influence upon her work in which she demonstrated the hatred she had for her father specifically. The poem “Daddy” is an easily applicable example. Within this piece of work, Plath uses direct references to how

Metaphors by Sylvia Plath was written in 1959. It is a lyric poem that uses metaphors to create a riddle, as she states in line one. Plath is using a narrator voice in her poetry to describe her pregnancy with the use of metaphors and her ambivalence to her current state. The narrator is mocking herself and I find her mocking tone to pregnancy as something I want to incorporate in my writing when writing about my character’s eating disorder. The poem starts with the narrator announcing herself

MID YEAR TEST How and why women are represented as being vulnerable and superficial in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror? Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror” deals with women’s preoccupation about aging and their concern towards their looks. Plath uses powerful imagery throughout the poem to relate to the theme of “All is Vanity”1 denouncing the superficiality of women, making a social critique of women’s illogical attraction to mirrors and their own image. Proper of Plath’s confessional poetry, she