Sylvia Plath

The theme of death is represented in similar ways throughout the six poems. In ‘A Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe, death is shown through the children’s life and the death of the relationship the mother has with the child. The poem ‘Havisham’ is filled with hatred and ‘War Photographer’ is about the death of thousands in a war and the narrator broadcasting these events in the newspaper. ‘Anne Hathaway’ is a contrasting poem and shows a positive attitude towards death, in comparison,…

In Andrew Marvell’s poem “Damon the Mower,” the protagonist describes his heartbreak after Juliana rejects him. Though readers never hear Juliana’s voice in the poem, Damon freely speaks of her thoughts and actions. His monopoly of narration allows him to exploit gender roles and tell his biased side of their story. He portrays Juliana as a masculine, superhuman creature by aligning her with the typically male Sun and describing her through the use of three symbolic gifts he gives to her.…

This essay will be written about the poems: La Belle Dame sans Merci, Once upon a time and Piano. All three of these poems have expressed feelings of despair. This essay will be comparing the poems and analysing the language for techniques such as language, form, structure and craft of the writer. The first Poem La Belle Made sans Merci is a ballad written by John Keats. The poem is written from the perspective of a man who meets a knight, waiting for his lover on the side of a hill. The poem…

Loss is a very common theme for poetry which can be interpreted in many ways. Many poems/poets have different insights regarding loss creating a lot of variation in the theme. In this essay I will be exploring poems such as; “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning talking about the loss of the Dukes Duchess’, “Remember” by Christina Rossetti which talks about her and her partner when they are no longer together. Also I will be talking about a poem by Dylan Thomas which is often referred to as “Do…

Summary In The Outsider by Albert Camus is a work fiction; it contains two parts and it is divided ‎into two equal ‎sections: part one with six chapters, and part two with five chapters. The novel ‎begins with the protagonist ‎Meursault receiving a letter informing him of his mother’s death. ‎‎He asks his boss for two days leave in ‎order to attend the funeral‎‏.‏‎ After coming back from the ‎funeral‎, Meursault conveys on life as if nothing ‎tragic has happened. He goes to the beach with ‎his…

Abstract. The topic of the research paper is on KAMALA DAS as a Confessional poet with special reference to her Poem DANCE OF THE EUNUCHS & An INTRODUCTION. Kamala Das is perhaps the most interesting and controversial figure in post-colonial Indian English poetry. She writes with outspokenness and frankness unusual in Indian context. Her private experiences and observations are portrayed in her poetry but those experiences and observations seem to become universal. Her voice also symbolizes the…

After undergoing, a painful seven years of apprenticeship, living in Brookyln, she often visited her mother Anita Desai in New York or travelled with her. Her debut novel Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard is no less ingenious in its treatment of identity and subjectivity. It is based on myth-making and mythical systems. Kiran Desai's literary creations are endowed with multicultural themes in which hopes and aspirations of both men and women in a globalised society are presented to…

Have you ever thought you experienced something traumatizing? In the book Maus, by Art Spiegelman, Anja had experienced so much that she ended her own life. Anja had ended her life because she endured the holocaust, she lost a child, she had a mental illness, and she had postpartum depression. It is shown through her depressed facial expressions which were quite detailed in the story Prisoner on Hell Planet. Enduring so much and losing so much had finally been too much for Anja to overcome. Anja…

Remorseful Interpretations The poems that will be compared to one another throughout this paper include, “What I Did Wrong” by Marie Howe, and “Poem of Regret for an Old Friend”, by Meghan O’Rourke. Each have very similar topics that are being discussed by the authors : including feelings of regret, anger, and an overall longing to have done more throughout life but they have very different tones associated with it. In addition to this, Howe’s poem has a much more violent tone than O’Rourke’s…

Throughout Christina Rossetti’s life she experienced numerous periods in which she questioned her religion. Due to this, her poetry highlights the varying levels of devotion as well as the doubts she had. She wrote Good Friday at the age of 32 during a period of skepticism whereas Shut Out and Uphill were both written when she was 26 (1856) and 28 (1858) respectively. Throughout her life she maintained a strong connection to the High-Anglican Church even through her anxious periods of…