I chose to do my three poems relating to death. Death is widely use in many poems new and old.
Many poets write these poems as a sort of outlet when they’re going through tough times. I chose to do the poems “I felt a funeral in my brain” by Emily Dickinson, “Lady Lazarus,” and “Daddy” by
Sylvia Plath.
Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath’s Lives were full of death and honestly depression. As a child
Emily didn’t like to be around others, but kept to herself. She was never married and even barely any of her poems were published until she died. Growing up her mom was very sick and stayed in bed constantly, and Emily was the main person to look after her until she passed. Many of her family members died when she was young. Death became so common …show more content…
It became so bad that in 1963 she killed herself. Both authors had deaths at young ages and lived through time periods where women weren’t asked how they felt, they were supposed to be good little wives and take care of the children.
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I feel like they both channeled their feelings of unhappiness into their works as a way of being able to openly express themselves. In “I felt a funeral in my brain”, the speaker is imagining her own funeral in her head. Her mind is going numb she thinks. She imagines the people walking back and forth. People at the funeral lift her casket and walk all over soul while wearing heavy boots.. At the end of the service, she feels like a church bell is ringing in her head, similar to a migraine. She imagines her mind being the entire universe. She feels nothing except for her own silence. The poem kind of cuts off in a threatening demeanor. “Lady Lazarus” is about woman who compares herself to a Holocaust victim. She compares herself to a cat having nine lives. She dies but keeps coming back. She talks about the times she’s died. In daddy the girls father died when she thought he was
God. Her case is complicated by the fact her mother is jewish and her father was a
Many poets write these poems as a sort of outlet when they’re going through tough times. I chose to do the poems “I felt a funeral in my brain” by Emily Dickinson, “Lady Lazarus,” and “Daddy” by
Sylvia Plath.
Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath’s Lives were full of death and honestly depression. As a child
Emily didn’t like to be around others, but kept to herself. She was never married and even barely any of her poems were published until she died. Growing up her mom was very sick and stayed in bed constantly, and Emily was the main person to look after her until she passed. Many of her family members died when she was young. Death became so common …show more content…
It became so bad that in 1963 she killed herself. Both authors had deaths at young ages and lived through time periods where women weren’t asked how they felt, they were supposed to be good little wives and take care of the children.
Babb 2
I feel like they both channeled their feelings of unhappiness into their works as a way of being able to openly express themselves. In “I felt a funeral in my brain”, the speaker is imagining her own funeral in her head. Her mind is going numb she thinks. She imagines the people walking back and forth. People at the funeral lift her casket and walk all over soul while wearing heavy boots.. At the end of the service, she feels like a church bell is ringing in her head, similar to a migraine. She imagines her mind being the entire universe. She feels nothing except for her own silence. The poem kind of cuts off in a threatening demeanor. “Lady Lazarus” is about woman who compares herself to a Holocaust victim. She compares herself to a cat having nine lives. She dies but keeps coming back. She talks about the times she’s died. In daddy the girls father died when she thought he was
God. Her case is complicated by the fact her mother is jewish and her father was a