Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath is a novelist and a short story writer but she is most known for her poems. Some of her most famous poems are “Daddy”, “Morning Song”, and “The Applicant”. The poem “The Applicant” is about someone trying to sell a women to a man by making her seem as if she can do anything for him and it’s the man’s last resort. This poem can be looked at from a biographical, feminist, formalist, or psychoanalytic lens. Through a biographical lens you can see that “The Applicant” shows how Sylvia…

Milestone Two The two poems being used for this assignment are Sylvia Plath’s “mad girls love song” and Nikki Giovanni’s “balance.” Mad girls love song is about a girl that feels like the man she fell in love with isn’t real, but just something she created in her own head because he suddenly disappeared and never returned. Balance is about the balance of black and white, truth and lies, love and loneliness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linguistic principles demonstrated in each of…

The poem “Two Sisters of Persephone” by Sylvia Plath demonstrates several themes. Among these are time, nature, and duality. As time progresses, so do the emotions of the two sisters. The nature of the sisters’ surroundings can influence them, and human nature may play a role in their perception. The duality of the two sisters demonstrates their differences and how they compliment each other. The usage of literary devices also supports these themes. Imagery and euphemism compliment the theme of…

Sylvia Plath was an admired American poet during the 20th century, known for her confessional poems. Plath's poems had a common theme of morality and death. Plath excelled as a child and won many scholarships and contests, but faced difficulties in her home life after her father died. These difficulties affected Plath's mental state and her work greatly. In Plath's poem, “Daddy”, readers can see how her relationship with her father and other life experiences influenced the topics and themes of…

Throughout Christina Rossetti’s life she experienced numerous periods in which she questioned her religion. Due to this, her poetry highlights the varying levels of devotion as well as the doubts she had. She wrote Good Friday at the age of 32 during a period of skepticism whereas Shut Out and Uphill were both written when she was 26 (1856) and 28 (1858) respectively. Throughout her life she maintained a strong connection to the High-Anglican Church even through her anxious periods of…

Emily Dickinson, who had written many poems in her days. She is one of the authors who understand the definition of darkness. Her poems are mainly about the corner of darkness and how people should get used to the darkness over time. People who had eyesight took advantage of the gift of vision while others are incapable to even encounter it. There are many actions that people who had eyesight didn’t know what life's really current. Her poems can make you misinterpret the true meaning. Her poems…

‘Elizabeth Bishop’s evocative style of writing offers the reader an uncomfortable insight into her life and struggles.’ Discuss Elizabeth Bishop’s introspective poetry is deeply thought provoking. Her work is profoundly personal, offering many insights into her lifelong struggles. She offers these insights in a memorable way, using intensely detailed descriptions and perfectly apt metaphors to evoke powerful emotions in the reader. She gives us an unflattering, unadulterated insight into her…

conflict, romantic conflict, conflict in war, and existential conflict in their work. The theme of ethical conflict is highly predominant in the poetry of Langston Hughes, George Watsky, and Seamus Heaney. In Hughes’, The Weary Blues, he highlights the extreme division between white and black culture in America through their cultural music. Hughes states, “With his ebony hands on each ivory key,” exemplifying the motif of the division between white…

I read the book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The main characters are Kirsten Raymonde and Miranda Carroll. The novel’s setting is around the Great Lakes area. The setting affects the novel because the area is desolate because it has been 20 years since the end of civilization. Kirsten lives and works with a group of artists called the Traveling Symphony. They go around to towns in caravans and perform plays and music to other survivors. The book switches around from…

Poets and Poetry Task 8 Noel Mains Biography of Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was known as an American poet, novelist, and a short- story writer. She was born on October 27, 1932. Boston, Massachusetts was where she was born. Her parents Aurelia Schober Plath and Otto Plath were so happy to have a baby girl. Three short years later Sylvia gets to meet her new little brother Warren Plath. Who was born on April 27, 1935. A little later Sylvia and her family moved to Winthrop Massachusetts. This is…