Sylvia

A world full of pain and suffering, and female poet, novelist, and motive Sylvia Plath came to be one of today’s most powerful writers. She is very associated with confessional poetry, which is a style of writing in which authors focus on themselves and detailed issues in their personal lives; she gets as personal as talking about her suicidal thoughts and wishes for death– even upon others! Writers Anne Sexton, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Brontë influenced Plath to pursue a life of writing even…

Sylvia Plath’s ‘gothic’ and realistic writing style captured readers with either interest and curiosity or shock and unease. Marie Ahearn wrote that Plath used her themes to relate her “particular view of fear, of the unknown reaches of the mind, of madness.” Starting her writing career at a young age, her poems developed from cheerful poems based on nature into an authentic view of her life and struggles. Becoming more in touch with herself and suffering from mental illness contributed greatly…

was earlier mentioned critics define Sylvia Plath as a confessional poet, pre-feminist, suicidal poet who is obsessed to a certain extent with the theme of death. In Lady Lazarus the narrator is in 1st person this is shown through the use of “I”. The narrator is a narcissist who is obsessed with the idea of death and makes herself be undefeatable against death as she is “a sort of walking miracle.” This is one of the reasons why critics associated it as if Sylvia Plath was the narrator herself…

Sylvia Plath has caused me to take a different path in not only my understanding of poetry, but the appreciation of it as well. This is the story of Sylvia Plath; a gruesome yet great story. There are many great things about Plath’s contemporary work. From her life to her death she was an inspiration to us all. Sylvia Plath’s Poetry reflects on her battles of despair with her personal struggles as an artist and as a woman in the modern century. Focusing on Plath’s major events of her life, it…

“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end” (Plath 105). Sylvia Plath was a very talented writer who, even at a young age, wrote poems involving the sorrows of people’s lives. She based many of her writings on people and events from her own life. As seen in Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar and her other works, Plath uses people, such as her father, and events, like her mental breakdown, that occurred in her life during the mid 1900s to create her own confessional style…

Matthew Goldberg ENGL 280 The Journey To Life And Death Sylvia Plath’s “BlackBerrying,” uses imagery and personification to bring the reader into the life of the speaker. Plath committed suicide at age 30, with these poems to show how much life you can live in a short period of time. In this three stanza poem Plath uses seven different colors which allows each reader to create their own image in their head. The poem is straight forward, meaning it is read consecutively. This also illustrates an…

Judith Wright 's Woman to Child and Sylvia Plath 's Morning Song have a focus on the way that mortality is perceived by society, expanding on this by implying that it is ultimately controlled by nature. In Morning Song, Sylvia Plath examines the concept of longevity and youth. This is evident in the unusual simile, "like a fat gold watch," in the First Stanza. The unconventional comparison between a baby and gold watch draws parallels between the superficial constructs of society and the deeper…

A person who feels abandonment by a loved one eventually will begin to feel alone. Poet, Sylvia Plath was far too familiar with this feeling. In many of her writings, such as “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Plath wrote about her depressing feelings, especially towards her husband. In the story, she explains looking at the disgusting wallpaper and the feeling of being lonely. Towards the ending, it goes to explain her happiness began to develop through her children. Many of her writings include emotional…

explosively-creative inner self” (“Sylvia”, Poems). Plath’s career in writing is explained in all of her poems from her life experiences. She was a very successful writer and attended great colleges. The collection of poems and novel she had written throughout her life were very personal. She wrote one of her most interesting poems, “Mirror”, in 1961; two years before her death. Sylvia Plath expresses her intense thoughts and feelings in her famous poem, “Mirror”. 1. Personal Life Sylvia Plath…

A Brief Biography on Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was one of the few twentieth century poets that had the ability to create verisimilitude in a way that her audience could understand exactly what she was feeling, thinking, and experiencing during the time she was writing her works. Due to the fact that her writing tended to be dark and depressing, focusing mainly on death, alienation, and self-destruction it can be assumed that Plath had a very negative attitude and perspective towards life, which…