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Poetry is often thought of as art meant for the most tortured souls. Sylvia Plath is no exception, as many of her poems express her emotional descent into depression and despair. In one particular poem titled “Daddy”, Plath allows readers into her life and family. She shows them how her father—a man meant to protect and love—actually caused much of her own personal difficulties. Within “Daddy”, Plath exposes for who he was in her eyes: a nazi, a swastika, and so on. These metaphors not only serve

A Distressed Poet or Just Mentally Unstable? : Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was a very interesting woman she was born in Boston, Massachusetts who did have some personal problems she just couldn’t deal with in her everyday life. Sylvia Plath did end up taking her own life when she was only thirty at the time and she left behind an absolute artistic legacy. Plath’s life was intertwined into her poetry, ironically critics weren’t allowed to offer insights into her agony and her work. She was married

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.

“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed” (Plath 20), are the insightful words of the adept dramatist Sylvia Plath. Sylvia’s formidable experiences as an adolescences and her vexing run-ins with others have shaped and molded her literature. Sylvia’s praise is not only well deserved but is proven by each and every one of her impassioned poems about the human condition. The struggle of everyday life is shed in a unique way displaying the ache of intervention. Sylvia’s unique writing

Sylvia Plath was a typical example of her generation, inpatient and greedy for life but this description has a bit different meaning. Plath indeed desired artistic fulfilment but she wanted to be an ideal wife and mother at the same time. When Ted Hughes published his first poetry volume "The Hawk in the Rain" she was very happy that she will follow his footsteps. Throughout their marriage she was in the shadow of her husband and we can argue whether it was her conscious choice and to what extend

countryside where he developed a fascination with animals and nature which is seen throughout his poetry. Whilst most of Hughes poetry is based on nature, other poems portray aspects of Hughes’ personal experiences, such as his marriage to Sylvia Plath. Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath got married in 1956. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life and after being married for seven years, Hughes had an affair with Assia Gutmann. After finding out about Hughes’ affair, Plath committed suicide in

Throughout numerous works by Sylvia Plath, she is characteristically known for emphasizing conflict, whether it be within herself or in the world around her. This poem dramatizes the conflict between the craving a sense of belonging and feeling useless. To create this effect, the speaker refers eloquently to the notion that she feels bland and unnoticed in comparison to nature. She wishes to possess the same striking beauty that the flowers have in their beds, or the same sense of direction that

Lucille Clifton and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath highlight troubled relationships with the authors’ fathers. While most all family relationships have weakness and strife, the ones discussed in these writings are relationships that continue to haunt the authors many years after their fathers’ deaths. The poems are similar in the authors’ tone, point of view, their use of excuses for their fathers’ behavior, and their fathers’ treatment of the authors’ mothers. Both Sylvia Plath and Lucille Clifton show

written by Sylvia Plath an American poet, best known for her dark, and confessional writing. Sylvia Plath lets you understand her thoughts through her writing, for example poems like “Daddy” and her novel The Bell Jar. More and more people learn about her work by reading her poetry or novels today. For one reason, this poem gives many emotions to the reader. By reading “Daddy” you can sense sadness, hopefulness, a broken child, while others may argue it is a cry for help. Secondly, Sylvia Plath casts

Introduction The lyric poem “Mirror” was written in 1961 by the late Sylvia Plath. This poem was not published until 1971; ten years after it was written. “Mirror” was written two years before Plath separated from her husband and shortly after committing suicide. “Mirror” speaks freely about women and their obsession with appearance and aging. In a way Plath used Mirror, in order to portray what she herself had been dealing with, in a time where she felt the most vulnerable and insecure as she was