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Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Apprehensions,” details the scariness and darkness of the mind. Through the depressing tone, the use of imagery and color association, the speaker, assumed to be Plath herself, allows the reader to enter her mind and experience her thoughts. At the beginning of the first stanza, Plath presents a calm, peaceful image. The stanza starts with the statement, “There is this white wall, above which the sky creates itself.” This example of color association illustrates that the “white wall” is seen as pure and serene. The sky above this wall is considered to be Heaven. The image of Heaven is also present in the third line of this stanza which is “Angels swim in it, and the stars, in indifference also.” Plath then states that these previously mentioned items “are [her] medium.” She remains sane when thinking about the purity of Heaven, the angels…

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…

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” Sylvia Plath faced many obstacles in her life, including the death of her mother, father troubles, an identity crisis and a failed marriage. Throughout Sylvia Plath’s work, she revealed this troublesome life, as well as her true emotions. Plath wrote “Daddy” before her final suicide attempt and really expressed her state of mind about people in her life during this time. Sylvia Plath’s life experiences and relationships combined with historical references impacted her…

The poem “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath is a descriptive poem of Plath’s feelings towards her dead father. The grief stuck by her father passing, heavily impacting her way of life. Plath had a hard time growing up because she felt alone without her father and she felt incomplete because she never got a chance to know her father or what he was like. Plath claims she is “through,” but evidence shows that she did not come to terms with her father because her suffering, aggression, and disrespect towards…

Ariel, a collection of Sylvia Plath’s poems released in 1965 after her suicidal death, transmit melancholy and agony to anyone who reads it. This depression in her poems was caused after her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, left her for another woman. Plath’s writing style has always been criticized for being excessively autobiographical and because of her continuous suicidal suspicion. However, Plath has never been criticized for the irony of the poem “The Applicant” compared to the rest of her…

Sylvia Plath is a well renowned poet from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Plath is well known for her controversial and pessimistic poems though some of her best pieces are joyous texts. Throughout each of these texts Plath has developed a specific key idea. It is believed that Plath’s most important ideas that she develops throughout any of her texts are, nature being a brutal relentless force, the oppression of women and finally, the extreme feelings of joy and love that children bring to…

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…

our lives. Sylvia Plath was an amazing American novelist and poet. She excelled academically during her attendance in Smith college. Also, she got awarded a coveted position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine. Despite the success in her life, she got into depression that led her to several attempted suicides. After her first suicide, she started to get treated, and eventually recovered from her mental breakdown. After a short period of time, she went back to attempting suicide that failed…

On October 27, 1932, Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Otto and Auriela Plath. Her father worked for Boston University as a German instructor and a biology professor (Steinberg 13). The family understood the importance of education and so they learned English quickly. Otto published his first monograph Bumblebees and Their ways when Sylvia was two and Aureila 's college thesis "is not for the weary" (Steinberg 14). Needless to say, writing was in her blood. Her first stories…

Patrick Amy Writing about Literature Dr. Lavelle Midterm March 6, 2015 Sylvia Plath: the Writer, the Pioneer, the Idol. In her brief and productive life, Sylvia Plath produced some of the more notable and controversial work than that of any of her contemporaries. Plath’s distinctive themes ubiquitous in her work enables her to broach a body of material that many other writers are incapable of: her dedication to exploring certain themes that others did not left an ineradicable mark on American…