Sylvia Plath Essay

The Life and Influence of Edith Piaf Edith Giovanna Gassion better known as Edith Piaf was born on December 19, 1915 in Belleville, France. She was a singer and songwriter who rose to fame all around the world in the 1930s. From an early age, Edith was well renowned for her voice and she joined a circus with her father at only 7 years of age. Edith’s singing was very powerful considering her petite stature. She preferred to sing about tragedy and heartbreak and the harsh reality of poverty.…

“Barbara McClintock was born June 16, 1902, in Hartford, Connecticut, she was one of four children of Thomas Henry McClintock and Sara Handy McClintock. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1908. After she moved she graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1919. Barbara did extremely well in school and ended up earning her B.S. and M.S. degrees in botany at Cornell University, and received her Ph.D. in the same subject at Cornell in 1927. Although women were not always permitted to major…

The heavenly sound of guitars and pianos complement the angelic voice of Lori Lieberman as she sings, “Strumming my pain with his fingers.” The breakaway of the piano serenades the listener into a ballad of love. Generation by generation, the stylistics of “Killing Me Softly” has evolved to conform to a variety of genres and audiences. It has made its way through airways with notable artists taking a change of channeling the essence of the song. Although the song originated from a young vocalist…

Sasha Maharaj has used a personal tone to convey emotions underlying her feelings about relationships in the poem, “Worthless’’. In this essay, I disclose how poetic devices, diction, syntax and other language functions have been utilized to reveal feelings/emotions of the writer in regard to relationships. Taking into account the title of the poem, one cannot put a figure on what or who is worthless. Nevertheless, it is known that worthless is an adjective; meaning something that has no use or…

The Melting Pot was written by Adrienne Rich in 1968. She was an American poet. Taken from poets.org, she wrote poetry collection like The Diamond Cutters (Harper & Brothers, 1955), Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law (Harper & Row, 1963), Leaflets (W. W. Norton, 1969), and the others more. In that 1960s poetry, the content of her poem explores about women’s role in society, racism, and the Vietnam War. One of that is The Melting Pot (1968), its content is about racism. On each stanza, this poem…

In literature and film, the taboo topic of mental illness is often utilised as a mechanism to either initiate the plot or convey certain themes within the piece. In Paul Coehlo's 1998 novel, "Veronika Decides to Die", the seemingly successful protagonist, Veronika, chooses to commit suicide as she believes that life is meaningless and empty. On the other hand, "Girl, Interrupted" is a film directed by James Mangold and is based on the memoir written by Susanna Kaysen's, depicting her time in a…

Similar to the indirect characterization of Lily, Kidd symbolizes the slips of paper located in the wailing wall as evidence of May's suffering, in order to demonstrate May’s struggle to deal with her concern for those around her. For example, during the novel, August explains to Lily that the wailing wall is similar to the one located in Jerusalem where the Jewish people go to mourn. Additionally, while discussing the wailing wall August expresses, “All those bits of paper you see out there…

For our poetry unit, my partner and I were assigned the poem “Chess”. The poem was written by a woman named Rosario Castellanos. She was born in Mexico City, May 25, 1925. Throughout her career as a poet and author, she wrote numerous poetries, essays, and novels. At her time, she was one of the most important Mexican woman writers. Castellanos had the voice to write about the issues of cultural and gender oppression. Though, she died at a young age by committing suicide, but her work still…

Amy Jade Winehouse was truly a diva with many demons (Rolling Stone, 1). She was born September 14, 1983 to Jewish parents in the town of Southgate, a suburb of London, England (Biography.com, Amy Winehouse). Winehouse’s career started at a very young age. At just 16 years old her talents were already being discovered when a classmate of hers passed on a demo (Rolling Stone, 1). She grew up surrounded by Jazz music, in fact many of her relatives on her mother's side were Jazz musicians…

Allen Ginsberg, along with a few of his close friends, founded the movement that we know today as the Beat Generation. Ginsberg wrote about many topics, including gay rights, the decriminalization of drugs, free speech, and the general perversion of America’s political system. He wrote directly from his experience of being a homosexual man living in a time of challenging the traditional authorities and rules that once governed our lives. Ginsberg never wondered if what he wrote was too raw or…