Sylvia Likens

Sylvia Plath has caused me to take a different path in not only my understanding of poetry, but the appreciation of it as well. This is the story of Sylvia Plath; a gruesome yet great story. There are many great things about Plath’s contemporary work. From her life to her death she was an inspiration to us all. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry reflects on her battles of despair with her personal struggles as an artist and as a woman in the modern century. Focusing on Plath’s major events of her life, it…

Has Mattie changed in Fever 1793, written by L. Anderson? Many people can change, especially on the inside. Here are three examples of how Mattie has changed. Throughout the realistic fiction novel, Mattie became exponentially stronger in mentally and physically. She has also become more cautious and independent. The first change Mattie has gone through is becoming stronger. Mattie used to be weak; When Polly died she felt feverish and couldn't handle the death. The author states this in…

Emily Dickinson, an american poet, uses the metaphor of vision in her two poems titled “Before this I Got My Eye Put Out” and “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. She was a private poet and only had a few of her poems actually published. When her close friend grew ill and died from typhus, she became very sad. She wrote a lot during this time and also spent a lot of time in solitude. In Before I Got My Eye Put Out, Dickson talks about her…

In the book “The Work: My search for a life that matters" by Wes Moore, he interviews many people who have found a balance between doing something that matters to them and doing something to help others. One of these stories is about a woman by the name of Esther Benjamin. Esther was born in a small village of Sri Lanka in May 1969. Her dad was a Methodist minister and Old Testament theologian and her mother had a college education and was a very talented athlete. In an area of the world…

This excerpt from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar describes the main character’s feelings that madness separates her from the outside world. Referring to those feelings as the “bell jar,” Plath explores the themes of reality, sexuality, and femininity. Plath also creates a tone of hopelessness and gloom as the main character battles with suicidal depression. Esther Greenwood is full of academic promise and ambition. She should be thrilled with her progress towards her career, but she feels…

A Talented Writer Susan Beth Pfeffer, a talented writer who has worked her hardest to be what she has become, a writer that makes readers happy to be reading her books. Born on February 2nd, 1948 at New York City from a middle-class family and raised in Woodmere, NY has one older brother. Her family originally lived in Queens before moving to a city called Woodmere in Long Island Southeastern from New York. Pfeffer’s father, Leo, a lawyer and her mom Freda Plotkin, a secretary.…

American author, Ralph Ellison, once wrote, “When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.” In The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, the main character Esther is left at loose ends when the novel ends as to whether or not she will be released from a mental institution. As the reader follows Esther’s descent and ascension from her mental illness, it is wholly unclear as to what will become of her at the end; however, it is heavily implied that Esther is released from the mental hospital because of the…

A novel by Larissa Lai, published in 2002, Salt Fish Girl melds elements of Chinese myth and culture with science fiction to make commentary on current issues such as gender and sexuality, biotechnology, and the dangers of capitalism. Born in the United States of Chinese descent, Lai was raised in Canada, and graduated from a Canadian university with her PhD in Sociology. She is currently a writer, poet, and professor of literature at the University of British Columbia (“Larissa Lai”). Lai’s…

Analysis of “Who Was She? A DNA Test Only Opened New Mysteries” Libby Copeland in “Who Was She? A DNA Test Only Opened New Mysteries” uses structure and word choice to illustrate her purpose in the mystifying true story of Alice Collins Plebuch. Plebuch took a DNA test for fun and discovered she was part Jewish. This is surprising because both her parents were thought to be Irish. After digging for several years, she discovers her grandfather was switched at birth with another baby. In the end,…

Sylvia is not afraid to voice her opinions and even goes on to state, “This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like.” (P. 84). Plath is not afraid to express her disagreement…