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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Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 during the peak of the great depression when unemployment soared over 20%. Although she was subject to a life filled with hardships and anguish‚ Sylvia allowed those hardships to shape her as a socially adept young woman. Plath excelled academically‚ and allowed her writing to be influenced by her rough past. After marrying a fellow poet Ted Hughs and having two children‚ she published hundreds of works that told of her tragic life and unreasonable thoughts. Soon‚ poetry
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Quick Facts about Sylvia Plath Directions: Read the short bio below and choose FIVE INTERESTING FACTS about Plath’s life that you think may have influenced her writing. WRITE THEM DOWN at the bottom of the document and be prepared to discuss them in class! OCCUPATION: Academic‚ Editor‚ Author‚ Poet BIRTH DATE: October 27‚ 1932 DEATH DATE: February 11‚ 1963 EDUCATION: Smith College‚ Cambridge University PLACE OF BIRTH: Boston‚ Massachusetts PLACE OF DEATH: London‚ England Best Known
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Plath notes: Why does Sylvia Plath’s poetry have textual integrity (i.e. unity)? * Context – Plath’s and yours * Informed PERSONAL understanding IDEAS * CONSTRUCTION * LANGUAGE FEATURES * SIGNIFICANCE Context: 1. Plath wrote in the early 1960’s 2. Plath suffered from depression and Bi-Polar‚ pervious to her main period of writing‚ she had on one occasion attempted suicide. 3. Plath loves and cares for her children‚ maternal instincts and influence. 4. Plath
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In the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she
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成绩 Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath 课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10 Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one‚ of course
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Adam Kirsch has written that some of Plath’s works‚ like "Daddy"‚ are self-mythologizing and suggests that readers should not interpret the poem as a strictly "confessional"‚ autobiographical poem about her actual father. Sylvia Plath herself also did not describe the poem in autobiographical terms. When she introduced the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide‚ she described the piece in the third person‚ stating that the poem was about "a girl with an Electra complex [whose] father
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Sylvia Plath‚ Exam Question. The poetry of Sylvia Plath is intense and quite disturbing. Discuss I agree with the statement that Sylvia Plath’s poems are filled with intense and disturbing thoughts. Plath’s poetry is intense‚ deeply personal and quite disturbing. Plath has a dark mind filled with doubts and demons of all shapes and sizes which provides rich imagery to draw from. The best poems to describe the disturbing experience are ‘Child’‚ ’Black Rook in Rainy Weather’‚ ‘Morning Song’‚ ’Mirror’
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Adida 1ere ES.1 Lucie Review of Criticism: “Mirror” of Sylvia Plath. Freedman‚ William. “ The Monster in Plath’s ‘Mirror‚’ “ in Papers on Language and literature‚ Vol 29‚ No. 2 Spring‚ 1993 pp.152-66. William Freedman describes “Mirror” as a search for the self‚ to discover one self in the person of the mirror. The fish that appears in the mirror is the dark
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The poem “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath is told from the point of view of a mirror hanging up on a wall. This mirror has‚ over time‚ been privy to the tears of a woman over who she sees in it‚ desperate grasps at moonlit lies‚ and the endless speculations of a pink with speckles wall. “Mirror” is a poem that probes into the corners of human nature‚ beauty‚ life‚ and death‚ reflecting back their truths to readers as good mirrors do. In this poem‚ readers can see the truth about themselves reflected among
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