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Sylvia Plath is a well-known poet who writes about the truth of life among many other themes. In the poem “Mirror” Plath revolves around the theme of truth of how an individual views themselves. Imagery, rhetoric, and stylistic structure convey this them throughout the entire poem. Imagery runs its course throughout the entire pieces as she uses it to describe the mirror. “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions” (1) is the first description described in the poem; revealing the exact features

show his love for his hardworking father sooner. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” she writes about her hatred for her brute father. Despite both authors writing on the same topic, the two pieces are remarkably different. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” have different themes that are assembled when the authors put their different uses of imagery, tone, and characterization together. Although Robert Hayden and Sylvia Plath both use vivid imagery to display their fathers

Mirrors reflect the innermost part of the soul. A mirror can show you at your most beautiful and your most unpleasant times. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirrors”, conveys a message that is much deeper than the words printed on the page. The denotation of “Mirrors” provides the reader a basic reading of the poem, whereas the connotation gives a deeper meaning to the work. Plath’s word usage conveys two meanings to “Mirrors”, allowing the reader to better personalize the work. “I am silver and exact. I have

Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath is a poem that explores the persona of a 40-year-old woman whose father died when she was 10. Despite the fact that Plath denied that it was in anyway autobiographical, the reader cannot fail to notice the similarities between the life of the persona and Plath. Throughout the poem we are faced which a strain of imagery; imagery which shows the personas extreme anger through connotations to being in a concentration camp: “Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz

Belonging and Individuality in Sylvia Plath’s Initiation There is no shortage of media encouraging adolescents to ‘be themselves’, promoting self-worth regardless as to what others think. And yet while many may be fed this message throughout music and film, rarely ever is it conveyed to have a lasting effect on one’s personal views quite like Initiation. Sylvia Plath’s short story follows the development of insecure and vulnerable Millicent Arnold, a girl who longs to be part of her high school sorority

The relationship between the speaker in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and her father is the most complex due to the difficult situation that is presented. This piece begins with the speaker stating that she is fed up with the “black shoe” that she has lived in for thirty years. This is the beginning of an assumed tension between the speaker and her father that builds throughout the poem. The speaker then goes on to talk about how she should have “killed” her father before he “left”. This is the breaking

Sylvia Plath is a passionate poet, and her poem Daddy shows a broad range of emotions. She likes to use her writing to let out all her delicate feelings and expresses how she feels in her poem Daddy. This particular poem of hers is somewhat dark and leaves the person who reads this with a sense of hopelessness and misery, the reader questions why the writer feels this way. The speaker of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" depicts that she both loves and dislikes her father. By reading this poem, you

Upon hearing the word daddy, pleasant thoughts such as love, support, and dependence usually come to mind. Daddy is the person that little girls relate to, and count on to fix anything from boo-boos to a broken heart. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” one would expect to read about the love and comfort that a daddy can bring to a child, but after reading the first stanza it becomes clear that “Daddy” is far from anything lovely and beautiful. The speaker in “Daddy” is a girl who is emotionally torn. She

Slide 2: Sylvia Plath is a neurotic Poet who creates works that are more morbid than other poet’s works. Her poem titled “ Mad Girl’s Love song” is a morbid perspective of losing love, this poem is a form of villanelle which is a lyrical poem of nineteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and some lines repeated, this states that there us repetition and rhyming present in the poem. Slide 2: Elizabeth Bishop is a poet who creates villanelle style poems with personal experiences. Bishop’s poem

It is said that without melancholy there is no art, and there is no better embodiment of that than beloved poet and author, Sylvia Plath. Often referred to as one of the most dynamic poets of the 1900’s, Plath had no limits on her expression through poetry. Her poems ranged from flowing verses on nature to unconventional commentary on the social restrictions placed on individuals. She is most known for her poetic expression of her own mental anguish, never shying away from topics of death and despair