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“Barren Woman” by Sylvia Plath Poems are a structure of words with multiple layers of meanings. The “Barren Woman” by Sylvia Plath describes a childless woman who sees herself as empty and bare. Plath uses specific figurative language, such as, allusion, diction, and imagery to help explain what being barren is like. The form, context, and figurative language of “Barren Woman” conveys what it is like to be barren, emotionally and physically. “Barren Woman” is a relatively short poem. It is separated

The poem “Mirror," by Sylvia Plath, was written in 1961. The poem takes place during a time when women's reflections were changing quickly, and women’s movement was becoming more important. According to Kristine Tucker in “The Overall Meaning of the Poem ‘Mirror,’” she states, “The ‘Mirror’ was written by Sylvia Plath in 1961 but wasn't published until 1971, eight years after her death by suicide.” Therefore, presuming the lady in the mirror is Plath, readers assume she wrote the poem referring to

Sylvia Plath’s Daddy is addressed to the speaker’s father. The speaker describes the father as a looming, unhuman force that stifles her. She introduces him as being the “black shoe / In which I have lived like a foot / For thirty years , poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo”. Her characterization of him being a looming, oppressive force is further reinforced by her description of him as a “marble-heavy… ghastly statue with one gray toe / Big as a Frisco seal / And a head in the freakish

Being born of a German immigrant, Sylvia Plath shares an eye-opening poem right before she ended her life in 1963. On October 12th, 1962, Plath wrote a poem called “Daddy”. In this poem, she portrays a speaker that expresses numerous feelings of hate and fear. Though most might think this word actually means father, in german “daddy” means “oh you”. This poem is related to a person or after all, a father. After reading further, you might notice that she references Natzi’s and Jew’s. Using many comparisons

reins of America’s oppressive past. Those include young African Americans and women, who feel that society places unequal expectations on them, simply based on their gender or race. Two young, American writers, Sylvia Plath and Langston Hughes especially feel this way through their works, Sylvia Plath at Seventeen and Theme for English B. Plath and Hughes employ tone, tone shift, and parallelism throughout their works to convey their message that young adults must stand up to demoralizing social expectations

There is no doubt that Ted Hughes was not only one of the most renowned British poets of the twentieth century, but also one of the most controversial and influential. With such masterpieces such as “The Iron Giant” and “The Crow” there is no doubt in his contribution to literature and poetry. Hughes utilized his life as inspiration for most of his work; he borrowed events from his childhood on a farm and the deaths of his wives to create works of poetry that are dark and emotional. Hughes gained

A quiet revolution: perhaps oxymoronic sounding upon first glance. However, the poem Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath paints a picture of a story about exactly that, doing so through a subtle metaphor and simple but powerful visual imagery. Though a poem about the oppression of a group of people, it does not tell a story of despair. In fact, it’s quite the opposite, speaking instead of an uprising of a different sort, of a hope as modest as the mushrooms themselves. Mushrooms may seem at first like a

Similar to Mirrors, Sylvia Plath takes a more indirect storytelling approach in this poem titled, Metaphors. In it, Plath begins by addressing the question of answering this, “riddle in nine syllables” - the poem itself is nine lines long, each consisting of nine syllables. The second line notes an elephant in the room, describing how there is clearly something evident that has occurred. Plath refers to herself as a house that is very clumsy from being very large in weight. The following six lines

Romero 5 Sylvia Plath may not have had the perfect life,but she always stuck to her view on how women should be treated in society. She was a feminist and because she was trapped in a bad marriage, she wanted the world to know women do not have to please a man to be happy. In two of her poems titled “Strumpet Song” and “Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives” she makes remarks on women wanting to please men. In “Strumpet Song” she writes about prostitution, “ With white frost gone and all dreams not worth

Sylvia Plath was influenced to write poems early on in her life. One of the biggest influences within her writing include her father, Otto Plath. Otto Plath had died from an illness caused by diabetes in 1940. After this traumatizing event, Plath had written very vivid poems explaining her problematic relationship with her father, and her feelings after he had died. She wrote a poem named Daddy (“Sylvia Plath” Poetry). Daddy is a poem including a characteristic person representing Plath’s father