Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication of death. Plath finds fault
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The Life and Writings of Sylvia Plath After reading and discussing many poets and their written work‚ I have realized that not only pain‚ but any emotion that the poet is feeling‚ plays a large part in how the poems express themselves through their writing. I have chosen to explore Sylvia Plath and the poems she has written and how her pain and personal experiences have influenced her poetry. Similar to many other authors of the twentieth century‚ Sylvia Plath’s writing was influenced largely
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speaking about Sylvia Plath a word too often use is Tragedy‚ the tragedy that was her life and the pain that ended it. Plath is known for her cynical twisted writing‚ but never too far from the truthful pain no one dared to speak about. Plath was far more than just a sad woman who made it an art form. Plath was more than other women on the Ted Hughes list of accomplishments‚ she was a literary genius and was a face of a movement that 50 years later is still worthy of praise. Sylvia Plath should be known
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changed as time progresses‚ authors have wrote about the same hardships in their work while still adding their own unique voices. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath and Stoner by John Williams‚ each author explores social expectations of women in post-war America illustrating the influences on literature and its audience. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath‚ she demonstrates a first person point of view on what it is like to be held to the expectations of childbirth in 1959. This
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Sylvia Plath: Dying to be Young As Emily Dickinson once said‚ “People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.” Sylvia Plath foreshadowed many different things in her poetry that reflect the difficult experiences she endured in life. Her father’s death and her husband’s abandonment influenced her writing in several different of her poems. Plath’s suicidal tendencies and the deep depressions she suffered also led to some of her darkest and more cynical poems. Her work is known
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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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Sylvia Plath boldly set the bar for confessional poetry in the 1950s. Using nature as a theme in many of her poems‚ Plath externalised her internal demons in a unique way. The narrative voice in her “nature” poems illustrates Plath’s complicated relationship with the natural world. The reader can relate to this‚ and draw their own conclusion on humanity both in and out of nature. As time goes on‚ and Plath’s sanity becomes even more fragile‚ the narrator’s relationship with nature becomes more intimate
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Because when Mrs. Lippett (the matron) wanted‚ she always kept her at home to scrub. Jerusha never complained‚ only once she wrote an essay‚ entitled “Blue Wednesday”‚ trying to ridicule the life in the asylum. Later on in her letters to Daddy-Long-Legs she wrote that hated the John Grier Home‚ that she would rather die than go back. She wrote that the asylum supplied the orphans only with food and clothes‚ but never took care about the children’s souls. The John Grier Home’s aim was to
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of metaphors could tell a story. The poem‚ “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ would be an example of this. Some may look at this poem and believe it is random metaphors put into nine lines. I believe this is a poem about Plath’s idea of pregnancy as compared to traditionally unrelated objects. “Metaphors” has a clue in each line that would lead the reader to believe that it is depicting the process pregnancy. In the poem “Metaphors”‚ Plath opens with the line‚ “I’m a riddle with nine syllables. In this
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belittled and out of control she was in different events of her life through her poems. Through the absence of strong‚ male figures in her life and her wavering mental health‚ she created relatable and emotional poems. According to the article “Sylvia Plath”‚ her distant father passed away when she was eight years old. Her husband left her to pursue another woman just after their second child was born (Materer). Being a young girl and having a newborn baby need companionship and support to get through
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