Based on author Rae Earl’s 2007 book My Fat‚ Mad Teenage Diary‚ a collection of real diary entries from the author’s youth was adapted into British television series. In the pilot of the series Rae (Rachel Rae Earl)‚ She was released from the psychiatric hospital where she’s spent months recovering from a suicide attempt. “I’m 16‚ I weigh 231 pounds‚ and I live in Lincolnshire‚” she writes in a diary whose entries are binned as the show’s narration. In many senses‚ she’s a regular‚ working-class
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Arrianna Theriot Susan Adams AP English Lit & Comp 17 November 2014 Close Analysis: “Daddy” Sylvia Plath was a talented young woman born to a German father and Austrian-American mother. After the death of her father‚ she fell into a downward spiral of depression‚ revealing her talent as a poet. In the poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses intense diction‚ sporadic syntax‚ and a unique style of figurative language to express the resentment she feels toward her father. Throughout the poem‚ Plath’s German
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Women were also not allowed to own checking accounts or savings. In this era many men idolised women and saw them as being pure and clean. This was the traditional view of women‚ not only was there a view on women but also one of love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the author of How do I love thee? .This poem is a traditional Victorian love poem which follows the rigid sonnet structure. Using this structure places limits on what you want to say and how you can describe things‚ but the poet has used
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I chose the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath because the poem seemed familiar to me. I then remembered I read this poem in my senior class. My teacher was pregnant at the moment and she decided to give us this specific poem. Metaphors is rich in figurative language. All lines have a hidden meaning or require a little bit of thinking. At first when I read the poem I was a little confused. Later‚ with the simple clues given I discovered that it was about a pregnant woman. Plath composed a poem that
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The Applicant: • The concept of marriage and society’s expectations of marriage is reflected through Plath’s satirical portrayal of marriage as a sales pitch‚ a cunning gimmick that people are forced in to. • The capitalist economic system of the time period emphasized the need to have a sustainable job‚ implying that employment is the source of social status and contentment. • Plath suggests that the government‚ consumerism and the patriarchy cause the dehumanization of people‚ especially women
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Stringency: A rigorous imposition of standards; A tightness or constriction; A scarcity of money or credit. Strictness: conscientious attention to rules and details The narrator makes reference to ‘a stake in your fat black heart’ and vampire imagery is clearly used here as vampire can only be killed with a stake through the heart. The stress falling on each word is like each pound and thrust of the stake. In addition‚ monosyllabic words create force and energy. The sentence is plosive and
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I Have No Wit‚ I Have No Words‚ No Tears Sylvia Plath’s life story could be considered tragic as she was monopolized by a severe depression yet expressed her sorrows through enlightening words in her many poems. The death of her father when she was only eight years old commenced her lifelong despondency and insecurities. In the poem “Daddy”‚ she speaks of how she never fully understood him and blames him for the emptiness she feels without a father. As time moved on‚ Plath discovered her writing
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written by Shakespeare. The poems have the same theme‚ as love and infatuation are the main topics. Their purpose is to portray a person in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer’s experience. The song ‘Why is Sylvia’ is organized into three five-line stanzas. Each of the stanzas uses the rhyme scheme of ABABA within. While you might‚ at a glance‚ note the ‘-ings’ in all five lines of the third stanza. The A lines are a simple ‘-ing’‚ while the B lines are ‘-elling’
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an social and political activist for many things‚ but most of all children’s rights. During the Victorian Age‚ Britain became the first industrialized country on the world. Much of the work was in coal mines and factories‚ causing long hours and hard labor. During this time period child labor laws did not exist and majority of the time they were put to work‚ especially if the family had several mouths to feed. (Mattord) The 1842 Royal Commission reports is where Elizabeth
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