Sylvia Likens

Sometimes, we escape from sorrow and distress by writing what we feel on a piece of paper. Other times, we express our thoughts that don’t reflect our reality, rather than showing what we need because of the lack of it in 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…

within restrictive conventions of the patriarchal society which they live in. Finally, the protagonists flee the restraints of society through avenues which are detrimental to themselves; via suicide in both “The awakening” and “The collected works of Sylvia Plath” and insanity in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. Arguably it is not the restraints of society which lead to their demise but the intrinsic flaw within the characters and speakers. The matter of female liberation and individualism is brought…

Sylvia Plath lived a short life of only 30 years, but in those 30 years she achieved more than some people do in double that time. She drew material from the troubles she faced throughout her life and showed true promise. Sylvia Plath lived a life of immense challenges, highlighted by a brief but bright literary career that ended much too soon. Sylvia Plath was born on 27 October 1932 to parents Aurelia and Otto Plath, who were both immigrants and intellectuals (Kirk 36). Throughout her early…

Compare the ways in which Philip Larkin and Sylvia Plath explore family relationships. In Ariel and The Whitsun Weddings Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin often explore family relationships. For Sylvia Plath, the family is an arena of pain, irony and anger. Philip Larkin in contrast, explores the family from a more detached and resigned viewpoint. Medusa is a poem by Sylvia Plath. The title Medusa is very significant because not many people would dare to link their mother to the image of Medusa…

Anamaria Marijic Buljubasic Ms. Hazell English Period 7 176 February 2016 I will neither give nor receive unauthorized aid. Beneath The Surface In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Mirror,” she uses personification and simile to convey a woman’s growing fear about her appearance and aging. Plath personifies the mirror, attributing certain human characteristics to an inanimate object. The reader also learns about the mirror 's life and its perspective on things it sees. The mirror describes itself: I am…

Series of Reconstruction Life is a series of reconstruction. People will face many hardships in their life - hardships that will break them down and bring them to the abyss of despair. Despite this cruel reality, there is beauty, for these events present the opportunity for growth: the chance to put themselves back together and learn from the experience. Not everyone will be able to conquer these challenges, however, for countless are maimed from the adversities of life and left…

Anne Sexton, an extravagant poem and short story writer. Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a poem and short story writer for most of her life. Sexton was a weird type of person during this time, because of the way she was raised. She mostly wrote about her life, family, and her mental illnesses. Anne Sexton won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry; an outstanding accomplishment during this time; she also was the writer of "Her Kind" during the Contemporary era. Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was an extravagant…

Sylvia Plath was a well-known American poet. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she grew up to be a straight-A student in school and published her first poem at the age of eight. Sylvia was a very bright student growing up and she was very popular. “I think I would like to call myself ‘the girl who wanted to be God’” (Barnard 15). Sylvia set such high goals for herself because she wanted to accomplish the “impossible” (Barnard 15). Although Sylvia seemed like the perfect poster child, she had many…

How Much Should the Author’s Life be Known Authors Sylvia Plath of “The Bell Jar” and Justin Torres of “We the Animals” both incorporated many of their personal life events and struggles into their debut novels. By incorporating their hardships into their literary work, the two books provide an extensive look into both of the author 's frustration and fanciful imagination. In “The Bell Jar”, the protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is first described as a studious girl who, through her education,…

“Shoot the Damn Dog” is written by Sally Brampton, a successful magazine editor and prize-winning journalist; who would have thought that behind a very successful and glamorous career, as the editor of Elle and then of Red, was a story that many (of her friends and colleagues) knew nothing about “Depression”. She struggled with ongoing, severe depression and alcoholism. It was the hardest thing for her as she described the struggle in her book “I found that a steady stream of alcohol together…