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    to be Sylvia Plath herself‚ and she seems to be speaking directly to the audience‚ no more like as if she is speaking to people around her‚ that understand her life. Because her life one can make direct connections to her life and to her poems‚ so I believe that one can trust the speaker. Structure of Poem The form of the poem Death and Co. is a traditional form‚ the limerick form‚ because every stanza is five lines except for the very last line. I believe the reason why Sylvia Plath had chosen

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    “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses many literary devices to illustrate her struggles for freedom in relationship‚ precisely with her father and husband. She uses heavy metaphors and dense allusion to create imagery of hatred towards her relationship between both men. It is important to know Plath’s historical background before readers dive into any of her artistic work. Sylvia had a very negative relationship with men in her life especially her father and husband. Slyvia’s father‚ Otto Plath passed away

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    Themes evident in Sylvia Plath’s poetry Sylvia Plath displays many themes in her work; however she has the tendency to conceal and dig her themes‚ metaphors‚ and symbols deep in her poetic words‚ which leaves us readers left to decipher them. Plath is a poet that conveys quite compelling emotions through her work and is both prodigious and petrifying while still gloomy and relieving. Though there are many themes to revisit‚ the more significant ones evident in her writing will be explored. Mortality

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    “Daddy” Deconstruction Paper The poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath paints a great picture of a daughter and her Nazi father‚ but this poem is more than just that. It symbolizes the relationship that they once had‚ and how it has affected her throughout her whole life. This poem also shows a very generalized depiction of how women see men who have treated them not so greatly. Although Sylvia’s father was German‚ he was not a Nazi‚ which is how she depicted him in her poem “Daddy‚” She imagines her

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    __Lady Lazarus__ Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus is an incredible metaphor of rebirth; the whole idea of a new life from death. Plath throughout her life was suicidal and many of her most famous works revolve around the ideas of death being a new beginning and a way of escaping enslavement from many various factors that bind us to life. There is nothing different about this poem from all of Plath’s other works. She as always represents her life troubles through a worldly event in this case the Holocaust

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    will learn to understand that there are punishments of society when one does not do what they should. The search for her identity and the acceptance of her truth has inspired women in future generations. Through the character of Esther Greenwood‚ Sylvia Plath explores the oppression felt by women in the 1950’s in her semibiographical novel The Bell Jar. Today‚ society’s expectations of women are nowhere similar to how they used to be back in the 1950s. Esther Greenwood writes The Bell Jar to protest

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    Explore the presentation of disturbed minds in Macbeth and in the poetry of Sylvia Plath. “Is there no way out of the mind?” Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist. She was born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ on the 27th of October 1932 just before World War II into a German/Austrian family. Plath suffered from clinical depression and tried to commit suicide multiple times‚ she was successful on her fourth attempt‚ which ended her life in February of 1963. Macbeth was a tragedy play written

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    Tulips by Sylvia Plath Tulips‚ by Sylvia Plath seems to be a poetic expression of depression. The speaker who I assume is Plath is describing the psychological effects after a surgical procedure‚which I feel is the time when sadly Plath miscarried her baby. The poem was written through her own view in a hospital room‚ where the reader is given an insight to the inner thoughts of a woman who has gone through a terrible ordeal‚ and the objects around her which influence her mentality. The poem follows

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    they don’t pay much attention or just ignore it and don’t know what to do to help the person. What happens when a person does not get any help? Sadly‚ many attempts to commit suicide and they succeed. But what makes a person take away their life? Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar” is an interesting classic story told in the 1950s whose story ends with a mystery that is never resolved. In the novel‚ Esther‚ the main character‚ is suffering from depression and attempts to kill herself multiple times. Bullying

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    Physical appearance can tie a lot into a person’s character‚ as well as their self-esteem‚ and this all stems from the opinions we receive from others perception on our physical attributes. From The Bell Jar‚ by Sylvia Plath‚ you can tell that Esther has many problems‚ yet it isn’t until you get deeper into the novel that you notice this originates from self-esteem issues. From the beginning‚ Esther has a critical eye on society and the people in her life‚ this contrasts from almost all of the characters

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