Sylvia Plath

Abstract: The love poems of Kamala Das usually breathe an air of unconventionality and urgency. Mark the following extract in this connection-“Of late I have begun to feel a hunger/To take in with greed, like a forest-fire that/Consumes, and with each killing gains a wilder,/Brighter charm, all that comes my way.” Kamala Das’s poetry is concerned with both the external and internal worlds, and her response to the external world, in particular despite her inner restlessness, is marked by an…

How where women perceived back in the mid eight centuries? The pome of “Beowulf” was expected to be written mid eight centuries but some scholars are to believe the tenth century. The original manuscripts where destroyed in a fire in 1731. With the original being destroyed there is no provenance to the original tittle or author of the pome. With the fire the pome lost may lines (Greenblatt & Abrams). With the pomes author not being know the author is known as the Beowulf poet. Though it was…

Shame is an ever present theme in the literature we have explored this year. In Angela’s Ashes, Frank’s mother Angela often feels shame about their financial state. Huck Finn, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn feels shame often in who he is and what he does. The Crucible centers around John Proctor’s shame in his sins against his wife. We explored immense shame this semester and uncovered many instances of the effects of shame. Angela of Angela’s Ashes feel shame throughout much of the…

In the movie, Sweet Home Alabama, Melanie Carmichael, a woman in her early twenties moves away from her charming town of Greenville, AL to New York City to pursue her dream of being a fashion designer. She becomes very successful and one of the top designers in the city and is enjoying her life in New York until she finds herself engaged to one of the most eligible men in the city. She is then forced to return home to Greenville to tell her parents the news and obtain a divorce from her husband…

Dickinson’s life influenced her poetry to a great extent. The things she experienced and the situations that drove her into seclusion so that she can write shaped her poetry. Her style has influenced other great poets of her time and has also affected American literature. Her life influenced her style and dictation and also was used to express her feelings. The themes of Death, Love, and Friendship can be also seen in her poems because they were impacted by the people in her life. Many people in…

3. "Gwenyth Paltrow believes water has feelings, just like human beings have feelings. She gets her evidence from Dr. M. Emoto who says that when you write “I love you” and “peace” on vials of water, they freeze better into “gleaming, hexagonal crystals”. Vials of water written on with “I hate you” and “fear”, turned into “gray, mishappen clumps” when frozen. Paltrow believes that Dr. Emoto is a pioneer in the field of how emotions affect matter. She recommends only drinking water that has been…

UNBROKEN A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption By Laura Hillenbrand Table Of Contents Topic Page # Introduction 3-4 Themes 5-7 Writing Style 8-10 Book Talk 11-13 Book Summary 14-16 Questions 17 Works Cited 18-19 Introduction Laura Hillenbrand was born in 1967. She began writing in 1988 about thoroughbred racing. After starting her writing career, she became a contributing writer/editor for Equus magazine. Laura won the Eclipse Award for her…

To hate someone is to feel an intense or passionate dislike towards an object or person. Hating someone takes a great deal of time and energy. One may even find themselves thinking about the person or thing they hate on a day to day basis. In the poem “Hate Poem” written by Julie Sheehan, Julie goes on to explain how much she hates this guy and how everything about her hates him. It isn’t until the end of the poem when we grasp the fact that this guy that she hates is her significant other. Then…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…

It was mid afternoon on June 12th, his summer heat was stronger than ever as he breathed down my neck. I got out of my room that was cooler than a cucumber because I felt like the living room was calling me, telling me to go play with Birdie, my zebra finch that was with my aunt. I got up and went into the living room to get Birdie and that’s when I saw him. His jet black eyes were no longer open. His white spotted gray and brown wings were no longer flapping. His delightful tunes no longer…