Sylvia Plath

In order to prove that Troy, the ancient city in Homer's Iliad, was true, an amateur German archeologist named Heinrich Schliemann excavated a hill, Hissarlik, in, back then, the Ottoman Empire, in the year 1871. He found which is believed to be Troy, and several other cities from the Bronze Age to the Roman period. And either on or about May 27, 1873, Schliemann reported, "In excavating this wall further and directly by the side of the palace of King Priam, I came upon a large copper article of…

All hope was lost when Lina has been told that her father has been shot in prison. As snow fell on the ground, Lina’s mother was the first to be informed about the death of her husband, petrifying her to the point of not being able to physically move. Lina’s initial reaction to the unfortunate information was denial. She denied that her father had passed, but the thought began to swarm in her mind. Lina began to take out all of her anger on Kretzsky by shouting bitter words at him as if her…

Emily Dickinson Sydney York 2ab 2/12/16 Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts to Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross-Dickinson. She had two siblings, her brother William Austin Dickinson was born in 1829 and her sister Lavinia Norcross-Dickinson was born in 1833. She went to Amherst Academy for seven years and later went to…

Frida Kahlo, who was born on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacan, Mexico, was a Mexican artist known for self-portraits, which had a deeper meaning. Frida Kahlo used oil, Masonite, and canvas for her self-portrait paintings. She died on July 13, 1954, in Coyoacan, Mexico, due to a pulmonary embolism. The art styles of Frida Kahlo were surrealism and realism. Surrealism is an art form when a painting has unrelated images in a very strange way. Realism is a style of painting are depicted as they are…

Have you ever lost a loved one and realized life goes on with or without them? Many people wonder what happens after they die and hope to find peace with death. Emily Dickinson’s poem, “If I Should Die,” expresses how she feels about the world’s life after death. The poem depicts death as being peaceful and the world as disregardful. Dickinson uses various poetic devices including vivid imagery, alliteration, and repetition to emphasize her thoughts and feelings about dying. Dickinson began…

Christina Rossetti was born in London on December 5, 1830. She was the youngest out of four kids in her family. Her father was an Italian poet and also a political exile. Rossetti's childhood was exceptionally happy. Her parents gave her so much affection and care. She was educated entirely at her home where she learned to speak English and Italian. She learned how to read French, Latin, and German. She was not intimidated by how good her siblings were, she was always surrounded by many scholars…

Biography Mary Higgins Clark, a bestselling author of mystery and suspense books, was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. Clark had published her first short story in 1956 but decided to try her hand at books in 1964 when she became windowed with five children to look after. Where Are the Children?, her first suspense novel, became an instant bestseller. After her father died, Clark became a secretary to help support the family after graduating from high school. Then she spent…

People cannot help but to wonder what the ultimate book would be like and how life would differ from the future to the present. Books speak to us, we can always relate to books. Books are meaningful words, there what authors puts their own thoughts in there, which makes it have a deep meaning and soon the meaning will be extracted from the book. It would truly be troubling and a struggle for one to choose a book in the entire world to save. One book just spoke to me, The Book Thief, by Mark…

As we know, a father is the most important person besides one’s mother. However, since a father is mostly the one who works and supports the family, he does not usually interact with his children or express his love to them as their mother does. Therefore, some of the prominent authors have chosen this as the theme of their poems. For instance, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden are two of the most famous poems about father’s love. Even though both…

phase of her work, right before her own suicide, and is thus filled with topics such as death, repression, and depression. The novel is especially interesting in this regard, as it constitutes what can be seen as coming close to an autobiography of Sylvia Plath’s younger years and her failed suicide attempt. Furthermore, I chose to analyse her poem “The Disquieting Muses” as it offers interesting insights in respect to female writing, as well as “Lady Lazarus”, which helps understand Plath’s…