Furthermore, mental conflict is explored through a number of poems studied this year, by diverse poets and varied literary techniques to exploit this conflict. Silvia Plath lost her father at 8, marred into an abusive relation at 20 and took her own life at the age of 31, all events suggest that Plath’s life was far from mentally stable and this is reflected on her work. A piece called Daddy is about the feeling of rejection, Plath utilises holocaust imagery to describe the relation between herself and her father, Otto being a Nazi and Plath a Jew. Contrasting this, Langston Hughes poem Harlem, it about the resistance of oppression. Imagery of the American dream is present in the opening line, “dream deferred?”, to defer an item, to have intent
