Sylvia Plath

In the article, “I won, I’m Sorry”, Mariah Burton Nelson uses an anecdote to begin her article. Sylvia Plath’s attitude, in this anecdote, focuses on conforming to men in order to make them feel comfortable and superior. This is because the anecdote describes the way women will underscore themselves in order to fit into society’s definition of how a woman should behave. Burton Nelson then shifts to write about women in sports and how these female athletes modify their behavior to fit into their…

all the skin tones and speaks all languages and dances to all cultures. Espaillat knows that culture and language shouldn’t divide Like Sylvia, Espaillat finds a passion in poetry. Both poets are and are young and ambitious. But the restrictions are bigger for Espaillat, she is Hispanic. Hispanic and a woman, yet she seems to possess more hope than Plath. This has to do with her upbringing. Although, Espaillat’s father isn’t willing to incorporate himself into the American culture and…

project on are “Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath and “Balances” by Nikki Giovanni. The poem “Mad Girl’s 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. If he truly loved her he wouldn’t have left, or he would have at least come back so she tells herself she’s…

ENG 3060J Katherine Berta September 20, 2016 Reader’s Response Two In Sylvia Plath’s novel, The Bell Jar, Plath examines the conventional role of American women during the 1950s through the perspective of the story’s main character, Esther Greenwood. Esther is the epitome of an unconventional American woman during the 1950s; thus she cannot identify with the pressures of conventional expectations of women during this time (Plath). Esther’s lack of identity to women of this time generates an…

Circle the Drain: The Effect of Mental Illness on Sylvia Plath’s Ariel Poems Sylvia Plath’s death was one of the most famous in literary history. Her chilling suicide added immeasurable weight to the work she left behind. The Bell Jar and Ariel and Other Poems gave the public a personal look inside the mind of their creator. Her Ariel poems are her suicide note. All her insecurities, fears, and experiences laid out in these poems. The writing of Ariel was Plath’s life flashing before her…

Many authors who write literature seem to put their feelings and emotions from their life into their art. Authors such as Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Franz Kafka put their own emotions and even occurrences from their life into their literature. This shows how their view affects the way they write their stories as well as how in depth they go, giving the literature much more interesting and pursuing a greater experience for the reader. Emily Dickinson inserts an abundance of her emotions…

money on the hospital bills. Esther knows she should feel grateful for this, but she knew "wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air" (Plath 185). No matter what happens in her life, Esther believes she will end up suffocating in her own mental bell jar. Not only is the bell jar the title of the novel, but it is also a representation of the hell Esther suffers in on a daily basis,…

“The Minotaur” by Ted Hughes; published in 1998, is one explicit example that shows Hughes’s utilization of poetic devices in order to show the complexity of factors that led to his tragedy-like relationship with Sylvia Plath. “The Minotaur” is written after the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, which was written on 1962, shortly before her death. Interestingly, these two poems share a single theme which is “family and relationship”, moreover, they both have used literary techniques to influence the…

Within the poetry I have studied throughout the year, I have found that most poems show feelings of distress, however, acceptance is also present. Bruce Dawe and Kenneth Slessor successfully portray the distress of war in their poems, whereas Sylvia Plath and Wilfred Owen show this feeling through different examples of suffering. Rudyard Kipling and Maya Angelou are two poets who I believed showed their readers how to accept things in life, whether you can influence them or not. These different…

and writers who have helped to break down the stigma that surround it. Some of the most vocal advocates of depression today are female writers, who coincidently suffer the highest rates of depression out of any career path. Famous writers such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Sara Teasdale, and Anne Sexton suffered from depression, and left personal confessions (some more obvious than others) about their struggles with the effects of their disorders and how they dealt with the rejection from…