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Sylvia Plath
Before one can paraphrase a poem, it's best to fully understand its meaning, and then work your way backward from there. Let's look at the poem's most significant verses: I am silver and exact. I...
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Sylvia Plath
There are at least two ways of looking at the poem 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath, as there is a possibility that vanity is not the only interpretation. It is true that many readers will think that a...
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Sylvia Plath
In the poems "Mirror" and "Morning Song," the most obvious sign of Sylvia Plath's uniqueness is found in her nearly uncomfortable level of honesty in portraying the inner life of a woman. "Mirror"...
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Sylvia Plath
First, Plath speaks from the point of view of the mirror itself. The mirror does not lie, as the saying goes, and the mirror attests to this in the first verse: …I have no...
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Sylvia Plath
Sometimes when reading a poet, especially an author who writes in a confessional or autobiographical style, it is helpful to know a bit about his or her biography. There are some benefits to...
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Sylvia Plath
[Please remember that analysis of a poem is subjective, and this answer is based upon what I perceive. Also note, however, that any interpretation of a piece of literature—to my mind—is valid...
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Sylvia Plath
In both Anne Sexton's "The Civil War" and Sylvia Plath's "In Plaster", the narrators talk about divided selves, with one self offering up a critique of the second self. The tone, themes, and...
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Sylvia Plath
In certain poems of Sylvia Plath there are suggestions of the oppression of women and of the poet's struggle to find her voice. These poems suggest that Sylvia Path is feminist in her viewpoint....
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Sylvia Plath
The themes of "Wintering" by Sylvia Plath are renewal and regeneration and feminine identity and motherhood, all of which have personal meaning for Plath, who writes in self-analysis. The poet...
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Sylvia Plath
The Holocaust has long been considered sacred territory. Politicians, entertainers, and others who have cavalierly offered images from the Holocaust for metaphorical or comparative purposes have...
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Sylvia Plath
I'll answer a few of the questions here. 1.The mushrooms are people who are kept down, oppressed in some way, the 'perfectly voiceless' ones who are slowly rising up to make their mark on the...
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Sylvia Plath
In this stanza the speaker apparently succeeds in tracking down the sound that has been disturbing her all evening; the source is finally 'exposed' as coming from an industrial factory. The line...
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Sylvia Plath
The meaning and implications of Plath's poetry is usually profound. "Night Shift" is no different. There are many layers to this poem, starting from the sound in the first stanza. This sound...
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Sylvia Plath
These stanzas from "Night Shift" by Sylvia Plath are replete with poetic devices and with sensory imagery, in particular. They describe a factory which is in full production, so naturally the...
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Sylvia Plath
Unlike many of Sylvia Plath poems, "Night Shift" does not address feminist issues such as the domestic realm, nor the confessional quality that prevails in much of her poetry. Instead, "Night...
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Sylvia Plath
"Full Fathom Five" takes its title from Shakespeare's The Tempest. (The phrase has since been used in other texts and mediums.) In Act One, Scene Two, Ariel sings that Ferdinand's father has...
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Daddy
The poems and stories of Sylvia Plath have not lacked for posthumous analysis by academics and authors in the five decades since her suicide. Considered a "confessional" writer whose works are...
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Sylvia Plath
Poetry can be very difficult to analyze for often the poet is speaking so figuratively, based upon their personal perceptions, that it can be difficult to fully appreciate what the poet is trying...
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath led a complex existence, culminating in her suicide. Her poems contain depths that may escape the average reader but which contain her attempt to rationalize her being. Her seemingly...
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Metaphors
Ambivalence is the word which describes Sylvia Plath’s attitude toward her pregnancy in “Metaphors.” It is a riddle poem with the answer equally a pregnant woman. The reader is challenged to...
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Metaphors
A figure of speech is defined as any use of language where the words have a non-literal meaning. In literature, therefore, there are a number of different examples of figures of speech, such as...
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Metaphors
Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors” cleverly explains the feelings of a pregnant woman. This poem was written during the year that Plath had her first child. The theme of the poem offers an ironic...
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The Bell Jar
The original question had to be edited down. I think that there are many forces pressing down on Esther to prevent a full understanding of herself. Plath presents a modern world where the path...
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Sylvia Plath
Yes. Gothic literature is a genre that focuses on death, darkness, terror and chaos. Generally, the genre glorified these things to find meaning in the irrational rather than the rational....
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Sylvia Plath
The poem "The Zoo-Keeper's Wife" by Silvia Plath is told in the voice of the wife of the zoo-keeper. In the first two stanzas, she uses an animal metaphor, comparing herself to an eel, which goes...
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Sylvia Plath
In analyzing Plath's poetry, one has to account for the role of her father in her life and work. Plath's experience with her father was formative. Articulated in her poetry, there is a struggle...
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Daddy
The images of suffering and being oppressed are some of the most powerful ones that add meaning to Plath's poem. The opening image of the "black shoe" compressing and forcing a foot to conform to...
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Sylvia Plath
I am not certain that there is anything particular direct in Sylvia Plath's poetry. The anger, perhaps, might be the only element. Yet, I think that outside of this, there is so much in way of...
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Sylvia Plath
One of my favourite poems by Sherman Alexie is "How to Write the Great American Indian Novel." In this poem, the speaker bitterly challenges stereotypical notions of what it is to be American...
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Sylvia Plath
Tone is the author’s attitude toward the subject, and mood is the reader’s emotional reaction to the piece. The tone of the first nine lines is hopeful, but then it turns dark in the last...
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Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, produced some of the most intriguing poetry in literature. Like so many talented artists, Plath struggled emotionally and psychologically most...
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Ariel
I sense that there is a theme of transcendence in Plath's poem. One of the unique features of this poem is that it identifies what Plath thinks of in terms of envisioning a world outside of...
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Sylvia Plath
Symbolism is where an object is used to mean something other than its typical meaning. Given that people can interpret things differently, the defining of a symbol can differ for each individual...
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Sylvia Plath
Point of view: the perspective from which the story is told. The most obvious point of view is probably first person or "I." The omniscient narrator knows everything, may reveal the motivations,...
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Lady Lazarus
I am not sure I see much in way of adoration or admiration of the fascistic male in the poem. I think that Plath is using the imagery of the Holocaust to bring out the victimization that she...
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Sylvia Plath
Seeing that Sylvia Plath's poetry is so strongly identified with the idea of confessional poetry, I tend to think that her subjectivity is expressed in a terminology of the personal. She does not...
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Sylvia Plath
Mushroomsis one of those poems that if you talked to five different people, you would probably end up with five different answers about what it means. Clearly, on the surface level, the poem is...
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Sylvia Plath
The extended metaphor in “Mushrooms” is a personification of mushrooms as an oppressed yet resilient person or persons. This is the general sense, although it is often thought to be...
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Sylvia Plath
I certainly think that Plath deserves credit for challenging conventions. She was not afraid to challenge poetic conventions of the day in the idea of ensuring that her work was an accurate...
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Sylvia Plath
Plath was a Confessionalist poet. Therefore, her work was one which spoke to how her life was and the conflicts she faced. Her work is typically seen as dark and depressing. Her philosophy was...
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Sylvia Plath
I agree completely with your statement. Besides the piece by piece analysis of her work that supports that assessment, remember that Plath's life writings are essentially a journal of mental...
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Sylvia Plath
According to Enotes: What sets Postmodernism apart from its predecessor [modernism] is the reaction of its practitioners to the rational, scientific, and historical aspects of the modern age. For...
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Sylvia Plath
Theres this website www.cramster.com with that website they are more able to help you with these kind of Q&A's It will get the answer you need message me if you need to know more :) Thanks Amber
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Sylvia Plath
The central purpose of Plath's poem "Mirror" is to explain how people can look at themselves and not really see the whole picture about their true identity. Plath states that the mirror offers one...
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Sylvia Plath
Typical characteristics of Confessional poetry are : -The use of "I" stories -Descriptions of personal life (including family trials and personal struggles) -Craft was true to poetic conventions...
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Sylvia Plath
Plath's "Mirror" has been widely studied for several literary devices including metaphor, personification, allusion and imagery. Each give suggestion at meaning. Personification takes it's form in...
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Sylvia Plath
One of the reasons for this critical designation as a poet of failed relationships is poems about failed relationships, like "Daddy." This symbolic poem ("Daddy, I have had to kill you. / You died...
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Sylvia Plath
A figure of speech in poetry is also known as literary devices or poetic devices. The main figure of speech used in the poem is one of personification. Personification according to the eNotes site...
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Sylvia Plath
"Bitter Strawberries," by Sylvia Plath, describes a conversation that takes place among farm workers who are picking strawberries. The conversation is about "the Russians," who pose a threat to the...