Sylvia Plath: A Tormented Mind

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A paper which investigates the life (biography), death, and inspiration of the ultimately doomed American poet Sylvia Plath. The paper includes an analysis of poems such as "Mirror," "Daddy" and "The Colossus," for themes and symbols of betrayal and suffering.

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"The art of poetry was forever changed by the dark new style of a tormented, gifted young poet in the nineteen fifties named Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was the "Golden Girl" who seemingly had everything that one could ever want in life: beauty, brilliance, talent, and prestige in her field. Something preyed on Plath's mind, though. Her emotions were tortured and forever manipulated by the untimely death of her father. This tragic problem haunted Plath during the entire span of her short life, but it led to a remarkable contribution to the field of American poetry. Sylvia Plath, a poet tormented by the premature death of her father, utilized revolutionary style techniques to exemplify themes of suffering and betrayal in her complex poetry."

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