Ted Hughes

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…

Stab stab stab death despair. I am referring to Machu Picchu and all of the death in Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was a cool place and people still visit Machu Picchu today. What you are about to read is all about Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu was built around 1450 and was abandoned about a century later and no one knows why the place was abandoned but some people speculate that it was smallpox. after further research, they figured out that most of the deaths at Machu Picchu were women. Machu Picchu…

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…

drienne Rich (1929-2012) was by many regarded as the voice of her generation. Her work was often political, and her poetry explored themes such as change, feminism and sex. In the earlier years, having a family, she often wrote her poems in between chores. Perhaps it was her traditional lifestyle gave her work a “neat and orderly” (Rich, as cited in Mays 912) tint. “Aunt Jennifer's tigers” was published at the mere age of 21. As times changed, so did her poetry, growing more social and political…

Her career began with her first book of Poems in 1953 when she was in her twenties three years before the appearance of Robert Conquest’s anthology of modern poetry, New Lines. In the Introduction to the anthology, Conquest discussed intellectual clarity and directness of expression as the distinguishing qualities of the new poetry, as opposed to what he described as the “vague romanticism” of poets like Dylan Thomas, George Barker, Edith Sitwell and others. In this collection she reveals a…

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” Sylvia Plath faced many obstacles in her life, including the death of her mother, father troubles, an identity crisis and a failed marriage. Throughout Sylvia Plath’s work, she revealed this troublesome life, as well as her true emotions. Plath wrote “Daddy” before her final suicide attempt and really expressed her state of mind about people in her life during this time. Sylvia Plath’s life experiences and relationships combined with historical references impacted her…

Point of View, Personification, and Symbolism in Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror” deals specifically with the feminine struggle of immortality. The poem’s speaker provides a window into the effeminate interpretation of deterioration. A woman's thoughts may forever be a mystery, but this evocative poem could give insight to the complex imagination of a woman. Throughout the poem, the speaker's point of view, the use of personification, and ironic symbolism all underscore the…

Enter. look at mirror and touch your face and pull your skin. I have been looking at myself in this small silver mirror, so much that I think it is a part of me. I sit in front of it in the powder room every day, gazing into a blank expression. I stare and see this woman, this woman who once held beauty and eyes full of mystery and secrets. But every single day it is fading, the beauty is fading, the eyes, which were once so full of emotion, are fading. I am becoming dull and lifeless, day by…

Similarly, Plath shows the importance that appearances have on individuals as they grow older. Imagery is employed to show the lack of attention the woman had about her appearance when she was younger. The mirror states, “Faces and darkness separate us over and over” (9). The use of the word “darkness” and “over and over” portray the image of lights getting turned off frequently leaving the mirror to reflect the dark. Children spend most of their day playing outside or watching cartoons. They…

Both “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke are poems centering around the parent-child relationship between the authors and their fathers. At first glance, Plath’s “Daddy” pivots around an abusive father, and Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” revolves around the joy filled evening of play that the narrator and his father participate in. While Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz” parent-child relationships are seemingly quite different, once one…