Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath’s poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe‚ the address to something that is intangible‚ and personification‚ the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However‚ they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects‚ however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West
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poems ‘The Shot’ and ‘Sam’ (Birthday Letters) display conflicting perspectives of the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes‚ which has become world renowned as a long standing literary controversy. The ‘Birthday Letters’ poems harbour poignant emotions such as pain and self-pity‚ whereas the film ‘Sylvia’ uses visual techniques to convey the anguish and torment endured by Plath. These two representations inexorably challenge the views of the audience and produce an array of responses. By
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showed a keen awareness of global issues such as poverty‚ hunger‚ and environmental conservation. This may seem contradictory to the questionable choices Jackson made in his personal life‚ so this is why Man in the Mirror may be his most personal and revealing work. With Man in the Mirror‚ Jackson reveals a deep inner-conflict and proposes a challenge to himself and to his listeners that in order to change the world‚ people must first change themselves. There are many contrasts in the song that reveal
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A Distant Mirror: The “Calamitous” 14th Century Barbara Tuchman’s A Distant Mirror is about as entertaining as a history book can get or should be. Tuchman is a captivating storyteller and the quality of her history of France in the 14th century speaks for itself as the book has remained in print after 25 years. Famous for her engaging‚ narrative style that makes history flow like a thrilling novel‚ Tuchman presents a comprehensive review of 14th century Europe (via France‚ the dominant European
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Tarkovsky: The Mirror Basically‚ the history of the movie was around a mother who is special and ordinary also. The director wanted to film a long cherished idea. Firstly‚ the film got a name “Statement”‚ but it did not get a license‚ later it was published with the name of Mirror. The frame of the story is a bit difficult to follow‚ the director do not indicate clearly that we are in the present time or in the past time. In the present time of the film dying man is remembering back to his life
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A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California‚ Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university‚ he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation’s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America
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Sylvia Plath was born near Boston‚ Massachusetts on October 27‚ 1932. She was the daughter of Otto and Aurelia Plath and she had a younger brother named Warren. She wrote fiction as well as poetry during her lifetime. Plath lived a very short life that was tainted with several dreadful events. Sylvia Plath had to deal with the death of her father‚ an awful marriage‚ various suicide attempts‚ and bouts of depression. Plath used her life experiences in her writings to evoke feeling from her audiences
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Mirror With A Memory Millions of other Americans were searching for a place in the new industrial society of the late nineteenth century. The Civil War led to people flooding into cities. Urban areas changed from homogenous with Irish and Germans to large groups of European immigrants. New York had the largest Jewish population. The quality of living changed as manufacturing and commerce crowed into cities. The top classes fled to the suburbs. Realtors changed mansions into tenements for
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Analysis of Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath is known as the poet of confession. Her life is strongly connected to her works. She uses poetry as a way to confess her feelings‚ to express and release her pain in life. “Mirror” is one of her most famous poems. Sylvia Plath wrote the poem in 1961‚ just two years before her actual suicide. After suffering a miscarriage‚ she realized that she was pregnant again. She and her husband moved to a small town and their marriage began going worse. The poem
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understatement to say that both Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin have immense depth and subsidiary meanings to their poems‚ both writers expertly structure their poems and used varied techniques to convey their themes of death and instil their messages to their readers. Plath goes about it an autobiographical manner and parades death as a theatrical show leaving the audience in shock and awe however Larkin presents death in a rather trivial manner in comparison to Plath. He juxtaposes the everyday street
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