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The Lightness in Plath's Poetry

Throughout an examination of Plath’s poetry, a reader will witness prominent themes of inadequacy and mental anguish. The poet’s lack of self-belief is primarily evident in ‘Mirror’, as the poet struggles to overcome her insecurities. Furthermore, Plath combats her darkest thoughts during ‘Arrival of the...

Sylvia Plath 2 Pages

The Language of the World War II in Plath's Poetry

The Holocaust is one of the most devastating and incomprehensible events in human memory. The systematic killing of millions of civilians and the attempted erasure of their culture defies logic, and exists outside the realm of everyday understanding. Words associated with the Holocaust or the...

Sylvia Plath 4 Pages

Discovering the New World of Nature

Although raised near the ocean and fascinated by the power of nature, Sylvia Plath spent most of her life in the suburbs and the city. In July 1960, however, she and Ted Hughes went camping for a week in Rock Lake, Canada. Not only was...

Sylvia Plath 2 Pages

The Portrayal of Human Relationships in Hughes' and Plath's Works

Within the poetry of Hughes and Plath, the theme of human relationships is written of in varying and diverse manners. Plath’s work details relationships, such as the parent-child relationship, using powerful and intricate imagery, while Hughes conveys the theme using comparatively simpler, but more metaphorical...

Sylvia Plath 10 Pages

How the Horror is Constructed in Plath's Poetry

Any true representation of horror, the sickening realization of the hideous or unbelievably ghastly, seems something of an impossibility. How can one speak the unspeakable? How can unimaginable terror and revulsion ever be recreated? Yet writers of Modernist literature, reflecting on the anxiety of the...

Horror Sylvia Plath 4 Pages

The Dualistic Self an How Identity is Constructed

Regardless of what role Sylvia Plath was playing at any given time–student, poet, teacher, wife–her feverish perfectionism was a constant factor. During her tumultuous years at Smith College, her concern over the defects she perceived in her character led her to commence a process that...

Sylvia Plath 2 Pages

The Humor and Victimhood in Plath's Works

After the post-humous publication of Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, the poet exploded into the scene of second wave feminism, widely regarded as a victim of her mental illness and the men in her life. While the tragedy of Plath’s life is inseparable from her work, more...

Sylvia Plath 4 Pages

The Presentation of Mental Suffering: A Comparison of Plath and Williams

This essay will look at both the polarity and unity within the mental suffering of characters and voices from Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire (‘Streetcar’) and Sylvia Plath’s Collected Poems, focusing specifically on the extent to which they suffer due to their imagination and...

Sylvia Plath 12 Pages

Winged Rook Delights in the Rain: Plath and Rilke on Everyday Miracles

In her 1960 poem “Black Rook in Rainy Weather,” American-born Sylvia Plath relays the feeling that a miracle has alighted in the form of a black rook. The bird’s beauty takes her off guard in a preternatural way on an otherwise dreary day, and she...

Sylvia Plath 2 Pages

Intersections of Domesticity and Art: Rejection of Feminine Double in Plath's Work

With the twentieth century now receded, students and scholars will return time and again to contributors of this century’s literary canon. In the realm of poetry, there are several candidates to consider, but one forceful contender for the list of important American poets in this...

Sylvia Plath 7 Pages

The Loss of a Parent and Letting Him Go

In her poem “Daddy”, Sylvia Plath speaks to her deceased father, explaining to him how his death caused her pain throughout her life and why she needs to “Kill” him. Sylvia Plath’s father died when she was very young. In her poem she shows that...

Sylvia Plath 3 Pages

A Comparative Analysis of Plath's, Dickinson's, and Bronte's Literary Works and Themes

Throughout their poems, authors Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson and Charlotte Bronte convey their ideas regarding the despair they have felt throughout their lives, and in particular the concept that ‘thing fall apart’. Through a range of engaging stylistic techniques such as personification, repetition, symbolism, metaphor,...

Sylvia Plath 2 Pages

Discovering Identity and What it Means to Be

I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath’s heart beat, and she translated it the best way she knew how. To a woman who was self-aware to an uncommon degree, what else could the sound be but a relentless reminder of her own existence? Many...

Sylvia Plath 7 Pages