Sylvia Likens

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

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

Sylvia Plath was an English poet and short story writer born in 1900s. She was best known for her novel, “The Bell Jar,” and poems such as “Daddy.” Plath’s life, including her poetry, her sanity and her marriage was a cycle of ups and downs. After her death in 1963, Plath’s life was depicted in the 2003 film Sylvia, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. By just reading Sylvia Plath’s works of writing, it is apparent that she had an infatuation with portraying negative and brutal thoughts. For example, her

characterizing him as a supreme individual of nature. Her perception of him steers closely to majestic, bestowing power and control unto him: “he with rock splits open/ knobbed quartz; flayed colors ripen/ rich, brown, sudden in sunlight (10-12, Ode for Ted, Sylvia Plath)”. However, in the sense of male versus female superiority, this poem simultaneously degraded Ted Hughes by sparking a competition. Authors Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar perceive women writers as “cherishing

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

In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Metaphors” there are several references and comparisons that are made between various images and pregnancy. Plath’s life experiences and the perception of women’s roles of the 1950’s shaped her poems and was of particular importance in this poem. As the poem progresses, the reader can infer that her attitude towards her pregnancy is not static. Through her ironic use of various metaphors, Plath is able to convey her feelings of bearing a child, and how her perception and

Sylvia Plath’s confessional poem, “Lady Lazarus”, is generous with a sympathetic insight into the many lives and emotional suffering of Sylvia Plath herself. Admittedly, she attempted to take her own life multiple times; unsuccessful at each attempt, until she ran out of lives at her final effort in which she then died in 1963. Due to her life experiences, Plath is well known for depressing themes such as death, emotional pain, darkness and using the suffering of others to explain what she is going

Morning Song – Sylvia Plath Morning Song, by Sylvia Plath, was written in February 1961, the same month she suffered a miscarriage. Morning Song, by Sylvia Plath, explores the physical and emotional links between a mother and child, and Plath's own growing maternal bond with her child. In the poem, Plath is contemplating her relationship with her new child and it is clear she has mixed emotions of apprehension and awe. The opening line of the poem introduces her first impressions of the child

Analysis of Daddy by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express deep emotions toward her father’s life and death. With passionate articulation, she verbally turns over her feelings of rage, abandonment, confusion and grief. Though this work is fraught with ambiguity, a reader can infer Plath’s basic story. Her father was apparently a Nazi soldier killed in World War II while she was young. Her statements about not knowing even remotely where he was while he was in battle

Many people view poems and other pieces of writing in different ways, there is no wrong or right way to interpret a work of someone, it merely your point of view; your opinions. In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy”, many could say that it was a about a hard relationship she had with her father, but how do we know? It could be about her father, husband, strong authority figure, or even God. But, as I read “Daddy” I got the strong sense that it was mostly about her father. The poem suggests that she had