Sylvia Plath

The poetry of Naomi Shihab Nye is a great source to explore the basic principles in Arab-American literature. Her poetry contains many aspects of the Arab and American cultures, she uses poetry to narrate her own experience and thoughts about these two worlds. Nye's poetry focuses on three major concepts: identity, multiculturalism, and coexistence. Nye clarifies identity in post 9/11 in the poem "Blood", and relates the incident to her…

In The Death King poems Sexton uses repetition to show how unhappy she is with the life she is living. Sexton spends an entire stanza talking about all the things dying will take her away from and each line starts with “fear like”. All of the fears she lists are overwhelmingly unpleasant like “dung stuffed up my nose” and “flies tremble in my ear”. All of these sensory experiences are ones that are relentless and impossible to ignore. All of these overwhelming smells and sounds are…

American poet and Pulitzer Prize Winner, Gwendolyn Brooks, National Book Award Winner, Ai Ogawa, and Emmy Award Winning Poet, Kwame Dawes are all essential components of the time of which they wrote. Writer Gwendolyn Brooks is a unique poet who is publishing poems that withstands the Civil Rights Movement. The poem “We Real Cool”, written by Gwendolyn, talks about seven young pool players whom left school to live the fast life and die young trying. Ai Ogawa develops poems with substantial…

Moreover, the symbolism of the bell jar poignantly struck me. Bell jars are inverted glass jars used to display a specimen of curiosity in an unchanging, oppressive environment. For Esther, her madness is a bell jar. She feels like she is a foreign, rare creature people talk about, but never understand. I felt the same. People would always talk about me, as if I were some role model others should emulate, but never get close enough to learn the reality of my life. Similarly, Ester feels like the…

Silvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston. She had a complicated relationship with her father, who died from diabetes when she was 8. She later said that his death was the reason for her emotional turmoil in her adult years. Her mother was an English teacher and she encouraged Plath to write. Plath published her first piece in the newspaper around the time her father died (“Silvia Plath.” 1046-1047). She attended Smith college and her junior year she won a prize from the Mademoiselle…

In the poem “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath narrates the story of a character who has attempted suicide three times. The title makes a reference to Lazarus, a biblical character raised by Jesus of Nazareth, to give readers an idea of the speaker’s struggles when attempting suicide. The speaker illustrates her third attempt at suicide by using figurative language to dramatize her poem. She employs the use of metaphors to compare herself to a Nazi prisoner. By describing death as an “art,” the…

toward its speaker. To what extent does this voice have the poet’s endorsement? One fines, once the initial impact has worn off, many of the ironic disclaimer associated with dramatic monologue. By calling the poem “Daddy” rather than, say, “Father,” Plath lets us know that she recognizes the outburst to follow as childish, truer to the child’s fantasy of domination and abandonment than to the adult’s reconstruction of the…

Sylvia Plath was an admired American poet during the 20th century, known for her confessional poems. Plath's poems had a common theme of morality and death. Plath excelled as a child and won many scholarships and contests, but faced difficulties in her home life after her father died. These difficulties affected Plath's mental state and her work greatly. In Plath's poem, “Daddy”, readers can see how her relationship with her father and other life experiences influenced the topics and themes of…

Milestone Two The two poems being used for this assignment are Sylvia Plath’s “mad girls love song” and Nikki Giovanni’s “balance.” Mad girls love song is about a girl that feels like the man she fell in love with isn’t real, but just something she created in her own head because he suddenly disappeared and never returned. Balance is about the balance of black and white, truth and lies, love and loneliness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the linguistic principles demonstrated in each of…

Judith Wright and Sylvia Plath both present different views on motherhood through Wright’s poem Mother To Child and Plath’s Morning Song. Wright explores the joy and liveliness of growing a baby by using a warm, slow, and tranquil tone throughout the poem, including enjambment, as if soothing a baby. In contradiction, Plath has an alternative view of motherhood, exposing the negatives of it at first, because in the narrator’s case it was not love at first sight. This can be heard in the tone…