Sylvia Likens

'They Flee From Me" by Sir Thomas Wyatt is a rhyme royal type poem which portrays vivid and evocative imagery by employing certain monosyllabic words which provide the bitter tone present throughout the poem. Wyatt recounts his youth and his meetings with certain women who now do not "seek" him any longer. The poet appears greatly disturbed by one specific woman whose betrayal affected him to the extent of addressing this poem to her. Wyatt's portrayal of women is quite significant in this piece…

drienne Rich (1929-2012) was by many regarded as the voice of her generation. Her work was often political, and her poetry explored themes such as change, feminism and sex. In the earlier years, having a family, she often wrote her poems in between chores. Perhaps it was her traditional lifestyle gave her work a “neat and orderly” (Rich, as cited in Mays 912) tint. “Aunt Jennifer's tigers” was published at the mere age of 21. As times changed, so did her poetry, growing more social and political…

Her career began with her first book of Poems in 1953 when she was in her twenties three years before the appearance of Robert Conquest’s anthology of modern poetry, New Lines. In the Introduction to the anthology, Conquest discussed intellectual clarity and directness of expression as the distinguishing qualities of the new poetry, as opposed to what he described as the “vague romanticism” of poets like Dylan Thomas, George Barker, Edith Sitwell and others. In this collection she reveals a…

ENGLISH ASSIGNMENT 4 ANALYTICAL ESSAY ”Everything she had dreamed for herself faded away, like fine mist on a breeze”. This strong quote incapsulates the feeling of a failed dream, though in its original context, the quote also tells a story of 1970’s America and society’s gender roles. The quote comes from Celeste Ng’s 2014 novel ‘Everything I never told you’, which deals with the suicide of a mixed-race child. However, this is hardly the story that Celeste is trying to tell with her novel,…

The Endless Conflictions of Love “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” appears to very conflicting throughout. The poem appears to reflect the effect a girl had on the speaker’s mind and feeling of despair. Throughout the poem there are a couple different attitudes or tones displayed such as a depressed, regretful tone and a hopeful, admirable tone. By using metaphors, structure, and diction, the author is able to portray different, conflicting tones within the poem. Within the first five lines of…

The thoughtful speaker in “Analysis of a Situation” also looks back over her past life and relates a pervasive sense of anxiety to fears about weakened creativity as she says: “There was a point everything went wrong/ A word, an act, some insufficiency./ And ever since that time the gift of song/ has come with more and more anxiety” ( 264 ). In these deleted poems she expresses anxiety about her role as a poet and tries to gain a sense of renewed continuity with the acclaimed youth and with the…

David Sedaris is a surely understood writer celebrated for some books and individual expositions, for example, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls and Naked. At first he had five kin: Lisa, Gretchen, Amy, Tiffany, and Paul, however his sister, Tiffany, submitted suicide as of late. In addition, Sedaris moved on from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. Not just is he all that much celebrated for his comical inclination and mocking style in his compositions,…

Bang. A gun goes off, and a girl lies dead on the floor. She had been having these thoughts for awhile now. Her mental health issues were too severe to handle. She had not thought to seek help to get rid of the thoughts going through their mind. It had never even crossed her brain. She did not want to be thought of as an “attention seeker” or “weak.” This constantly happens in the community. People in the community start feeling depressed and decide not to talk to anyone about it. They…

explosively-creative inner self” (“Sylvia”, Poems). Plath’s career in writing is explained in all of her poems from her life experiences. She was a very successful writer and attended great colleges. The collection of poems and novel she had written throughout her life were very personal. She wrote one of her most interesting poems, “Mirror”, in 1961; two years before her death. Sylvia Plath expresses her intense thoughts and feelings in her famous poem, “Mirror”. 1. Personal Life Sylvia Plath…

Point of View, Personification, and Symbolism in Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” deals specifically with the feminine struggle of immortality. The poem’s speaker provides a window into the effeminate interpretation of deterioration. A woman's thoughts may forever be a mystery, but this evocative poem could give insight to the complex imagination of a woman. Throughout the poem, the speaker's point of view, the use of personification, and ironic symbolism all underscore the…