sound effects‚ etc.). Complete a close reading of one of the following poems‚ ensuring that you paraphrase its content‚ the literary techniques used within it‚ and the effects these techniques have on the interpretation of the poem. a. “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath (attached) b. “Hockey Players” by Al Purdy (attached) Your essay will be graded according to the rubric on the back of this page. Please submit your rubric with your assignment for grading. Criteria 4 3 2 1 Unity /30 The
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Introduction: In this poem‚ Maya Angelou celebrates femininity by playing upon the two possible meanings that could be attached to the poem’s title - Phenomenal Woman. As a liberated woman‚ the speaker in the poem proudly proclaims her individuality; she is an extraordinary person‚ and therefore phenomenal. Phenomenal - from Angelou’s Perspective: Maya Angelou asks the reader to probe deeper into the whole question of what makes a woman attractive‚ worthwhile and valued. The "Phenomenal" in the
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One thing that interests me most about metaphor and how you take something little or even play full but then relate it to this big amazing concept or problem in everyday life. I enjoy how metaphor can relate completely unrelated thing like in the Sylvia Plath poem how she compares eaten a bag of green apples to pregnancy‚ apples and pregnancy are nothing alike but she makes u see the similarities. for my primary source I would like to do a poem by Shel Silverstein he has been one of my favorite poets
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book‚ Holden explains his inner thoughts regarding everyone he knows‚ and most of them are judgmental. Holden is considered to be a typical American teenager in this novel. First of all‚ teenagers like to express their thoughts. In Sylvia Plath’s article “Sylvia Plath at Seventeen”‚ she begins saying‚“As of today I have decided to keep a diary again―just a place where I can write my thoughts and opinions when I have a moment. Somehow I
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with his late and emotionally disturbed wife Sylvia Plath. Victoria Laurie describes the poems as a "a collection of elegiac tender and harrowing poetry addressed to his dead wife.". through Birthday Letters‚ Hughes asserts that the facts and memories of his life and relationship belong to him and not to the world or the media. He says "I hope that everyone owns the facts of his or her own life." In this sense‚ as well as being a personal address to Plath‚ Birthday Letters is also Hughes’ attempt to
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about 1200 objects which illustrate the history of Cambridge. The Arbury Coffin is one of the highlights of the gallery. It contains the bones of a woman‚ a shrew and a mouse thought to date from the fourth century AD. This coffin inspired the Sylvia Plath poem ‘All the Dead Dears’. The shrew and mouse bones found in the coffin of a well-to-do Roman woman in Arbury. Her ankle had been knawed. As you walk up the stairs‚ you will arrive the Maudslay Hall. It is the museum’s principle Anthropology
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her life because he is dead. The notion that time only fosters negative growth of resentment is prominently featured in the poem. She lived with this suppressed anger and bitterness “For thirty years‚” (Plath‚ 953‚ 4). Growing up‚ she was so suffocated that she “barely dared to breathe or Achoo” (Plath‚ 953‚ 5). This form of restrictive behavior is what forced her to keep these emotions in‚ allowing them to grow to the point that she tried to commit suicide as a means of escape. There are countless
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Written Task 2 ONLY HL Written tasks One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be based on a literary text studied in part 3or part 4 of the course. (The Awakening‚ Katherine Mansfield short stories‚ Sylvia Plath Poetry‚ A Doll’s House‚ Interpreter of Maladies ss and Pride and Prejudice) The other must be based on material studied in the language option ( Media and Advertisement). Formal requirements for tasks 2 One of the tasks submitted for external assessment must be a critical
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Henry David Thoreau once wrote‚ “If a man does not keep pace with his companions‚ perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears‚ however measured and far away” (Thoreau). Both Esther Greenwood of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and Christopher McClandless of John Kraukaer’s Into the Wild had their own “music” different than societies. This “music” lead to Esther’s suicide attempts and Christopher’s journey to Alaska. While media influences both Esther Greenwood’s
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similarly to Hughes‚ through the main character’s suffering so as to manipulate the responder into siding with his viewpoint. “Birthday Letters” is used by Ted Hughes in an attempt to exonerate him from public perception that he was responsible for Sylvia Plath’s suicide. He continuously takes the stance of the surrogate victim to Plath’s mental instability and destructive nature in their relationship. This is evident in The Shot; a poem that draws on real life examples‚ ‘you hair done this way and
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