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    When I’m writing a poem, I often have a concept or mood that is my goal to express to the reader. Often I begin by thinking of a line that I want to stick out within the poem, and once I have written a line that fits what I’m attempting to convey, I begin to flesh out the poem around that line. I continue writing until I feel as if I have enough there to express what I mean. I usually do not continue working on that poem until I revise it. My worry is making a poem too long, too wordy, or having…

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    Among the most every now and again treated subjects in writing, demise present as a topic, image, or plot gadget and exists as one of the characterizing components in the written work of current artists, screenwriters, and authors. Interlaced with the sources of writing itself, human cognizance of mortality has for a considerable length of time gave the impulse to reflection on the causes, which means, and nature of presence. While medicines of death are as shifted as the writers who keep in…

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    type of narrative and lyric verse, given impetus by American Robert Lowell’s life studies (1959), which deals with the facts and intimate mental and physical experiences of the poet’s own life. Confessional poems were written by Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and including Kamala Das. The confessional poet deals in their poetry with personal emotional experiences…

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    in some mental… I don’t think poetry has got anything to do with sickness. I had a breakdown and the poems in the book The Mind has Mountains (1966), a title from Hopkins, most of them are not about me. They are not like Anne Sexton’s .I think Sylvia Plath was a marvelous poet. I do not like “Lady Lazarus and “Daddy”. I think they have gone way over. The term confessional has been associated with me, mental illness and revelation, but I don’t think that’s interesting”( Gerlinde Gramang ).When…

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    The Gilded Age

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    too unstable to use as an anchor for their narratives leading to more self expression in literature. In the 1960s, confessional poetry became much more popular. In it, authors often used personal pronouns such as I and expressed self-expression. Sylvia Plath was an important poet in the confessional poetry literary movement. An example of her work is _______. Since 1945, and still today, culture is affecting literature. Immigration has brought many new ideas that are reshaping the literary…

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    I’ve always had a thing for shoes. But not like someone who can never have enough pairs. No, I’m more of a carefully-select-one-pair-and-wear-it-until-the-holes-get-too-big-andmy-toes-poke-through kind of person. I could recount my entire life based on my shoes. Fifteen years ago – the farthest back I can remember My mother bought me this pair: hideous, impractical, bright red wooden things that she thought were ‘absolutely darling.’ Those shoes rarely touched the ground, but I traveled far…

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    Hitching Light Beam

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    Hitching a Ride on a Light Beam Physics is the most fundamental of the sciences, undergirding astronomy, chemistry, geology, biology, and—absent some paradigm-shattering revelation—human thought and action. Its analytical methods and machines have plumbed the unknown and the inaccessible, from the submicroscopic confines of the atomic nucleus to the billowing expanse of the observable universe. Physics has superseded our biochemically mediated perceptions of the world, replacing qualitative…

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    Mental illness is a matter of is it real or not. Many people say yes because they have seen the effects it has on loved ones while other say no because there is no scientific evidence. However, there is plenty of physical evidence it is just hard to find out what is going on. Mental illness is not know as someone getting sad every once in awhile. It is supposed to represent the extreme cases. If someone believes that mental illness is not real. It would probably be thought that mental health is…

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    American creation with regional rituals handed down by generations, it did not become a “full-blown American holiday” until the turn of the century (Bannatyne). Because of the contemporary nature of Halloween, without Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”, and George A. Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead, the holiday as we…

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    alone, as most people are independent and that more than these people are facing it throughout this time. For some happiness to occur, you have to be able to communicate with others, but with no one to talk to, they are the true lone rangers. As Sylvia Plath once said, “ Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship—but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and…

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