which the author communicates through poetic language. In Margaret Atwood’s ‘Christmas Carols’ and Sylvia Plath’s ‘Stillborn’ the application of extended metaphor, persuasive language, creation of tone and mood, repetition, allusion and juxtaposition generates thought and feeling through poetry. In Sylvia Plath’s potent emotive work addressing the failure experienced through writing uses the metaphor of a stillborn child, while ‘Christmas Carols’ a political piece is centralized on society’s generalized
In addition, Sylvia Plath employs imagery to present her mother to the readers as a sadistic woman who readily accepts her husband's death. Plath's poems convey her feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, hopelessness, and anger at her mother. Plath often referred to her mother's greatest sin was forcing her children, including Sylvia, to stay home from her husband's funeral. This action only deepened the deep seeded hatred for her mother, causing Plath to believe this was a tell-tale sign of her mother's
Patricia Krueger English 102 11/23/14 Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath has been viewed as one of the most captivating poets of 20th century. Many of her poetry was written with common themes of pregnancy, motherhood and the rejection of what society believed a women’s role was in creating the facade of a perfect family. Sylvia Plath explores such topics as personal and feminine identity, pregnancy and motherhood through her writings of confessional poetry, with the use of a conflicted tone towards the
“Daddy” Wasn’t Much of a Daddy In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” the author uses metaphors to present a figurative image of how much she resents and feels trapped around her father and husband. The author creates an evil tone to help the reader feel and understand what she has felt while being in the presence of the one’s she once loved. The poem also acts as revenge for the author because she claims that she has killed her father and the man she has made out to be her father, which is her husband
intentionally writing little but carefully using diction and metaphor to allow the reader to “say a lot” by interpreting the work in a number of different ways. The poets John Keats, W.H. Auden, and Sylvia Plath all use these techniques in their poetry, with
accidental, may have been exactly what Sylvia Plath wanted to distract her from the gripes of her battle with depression. In the first half of “Cut,” Plath uses diction with light connotation to describe an event that is not often seen as a pleasurable experience. In a frenzy of excitement followed by remorse caused by the of cutting her finger, Plath uses vivid tactile and visual imagery in combination with historical allusion in the form of overlapping metaphors to convey the experience of detachment
In Greek mythology, the Minotaur was a monstrous beast part man part bull, which fed on human flesh and lived in a labyrinth in Crete. In Ted Hughes’ poem, the Minotaur is a symbolism of Sylvia Plath’s father Otto and a metaphoric representation of Otto’s rage, ferocity and terrorism of his daughter. Whilst the labyrinth is metaphorically speaking the complexity and madness that is Sylvia’s mind. Hughes begins his poem with lurid violence, anger and frustration. “The mahogany table-top you smashed”
For the following essay I chose to debate the thesis in the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. Plath is the speaker of the poem and lost her father at the age of ten when she still though highly of him. As time goes on she sees that her father had an oppressive dominance over her and compares him to a Nazi and a devil. The conflict that she had with her father eventually pours over in a short and painful marriage. Plath has feelings of hatred towards her father and husband. She allows the reader to feel
Latina/Latino Poetry, and Asian American Poetry. Upon reflecting ten questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s work entitled, “Eating Alone”; Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man”; Evelyn Avery’s quote about Bernard Malamud’s Ethnic Writings; Beverly Lyon Clark’s
Zeena, initially lively, became increasingly lost to hypochondria and bouts of silence. The effect is to gradually make the reader feel just as oppressed as the main characters in the novel, we too have “been in Starkfield too many winters.” While Plath’s poetry is arguably a dark embodiment of America as the home and great power symbolic of America’s fight for independence which reflects her rejection of Patriarchy and the domestic through her writings. The first line of Lesbos, Plath positions the