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"The Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, 2006.
This paper is an analysis of the poem "The Mirror". Ms. Plath adopts the viewpoint of a mirror to illustrate the aging of a woman obsessed with her lost youth.
956 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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The author discusses how the sole function of a mirror is to show a reflection of the person looking into it. In this paper, he seeks to explain how the woman sees more than her physical self, she sees the time that has passed by her and how old she has become. This forces her to reflect on her years of suffering.
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"Both the woman and the mirror live their life in darkness, both have only based their beliefs on appearances. The mirror believes its heart is the pink wall and the woman her reflection, her true self. Both the woman and the mirror are trying to find something deeper in themselves, something beyond appearances."
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?The Colossus? by Sylvia Plath.
This paper analyzes "The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath," a collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath, who was a troubled, suicidal, creative artist whose work is thought-provoking, eerie, mysterious, and stimulating on a level few poets have achieve
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper explains that the overall theme of "The Colossus and Other Poems by Sylvia Plath" seems to be rebellion by the author against the world, against her life; there are death and dying images throughout the book. The author points out that Plath has many believable voices in these poems, which is one of the strengths of the book; because of the depth of her intellect and her skill at manipulating imagery, readers are brought into her consciousness, and there is nothing to do but believe her. The paper relates that it doesn't appear that these poems all have relevance to each other, but they were written at about the same time, so, for the poet, there is a unifying theme, a window of time in her life.
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Thesis
What Reaction Did I Have after Reading the Book?
Why Did I React That Way?
How Did I Feel about "The Colossus"?
Was There an Overall Theme to the Book of Poems?
What Kind of Voice Does the Poet have?
Was the Voice Believable?
What are Underlying Themes of the Book?
Are there Secondary Themes?
Were the Poems Unified by the Fact That They All Appeared in this Book?
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"Are there secondary themes? Some of the poems feature shadows and echoes, and mirrors - but it also seems a secondary theme is her father, and his memory and legacy in terms of her life and times. An interesting theme in "Frog Autumn" is the passing of summer into fall, with the advent of "scant, skinny" insects and even the spider "drops" from the effect of the frost. This poem could be a metaphor for getting old, "thin Lamentably." And "The Burnt-Out Spa" is laden with insects again, crickets this time, and the "little weeds" are "soft suede tongues between his bones." In "I Want, I Want," the "wasp, wolf and shark" (all potentially dangerous to humans) are set to work, and there are barbs on the "crown of the gilded wire.""
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Sylvia Plath, 2003.
A biography of Sylvia Plath and an analysis of her poem "The Mirror".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at the life of Sylvia Plath and in particular,the meaning of her poem "The Mirror" . It also examines her Her stormy relationship with poet Ted Hughes.
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"Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath was born in Boston Massachusetts to Otto and Aurelia Plath both educators. From the time Plath was the age of five she was writing complete poems. She was a brilliant and gifted high school student having her ..."
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Sylvia Plath and Esther Greenwood, 2007.
A comparison of Sylvia Plath and her protagonist Esther Greenwood from her novel "The Bell Jar".
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses how Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar", is semiautobiographical and how the events that happen in the story almost directly parallel events that occurred in Sylvia Plath's life when she was twenty years old. It analyzes the plethora of similarities occurring between Sylvia and the protagonist in the novel, Esther, in an attempt to show that the presence of numerous parallels between Sylvia Plath and Esther Greenwood serves as evidence that Esther is a literary representation of Plath.
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"Down to the minutest of details, similarities between Plath and Greenwood can be seen. Plath and Greenwood both lived near Boston. Both had younger brothers and were their parents' eldest children. Both Plath, and her fictional counterpart Esther, lost their fathers when they were young girls. Their mothers played an enormous role in shaping their lives. Being that their fathers were deceased, their mothers were forced to take on the role of both, mother and father. This centrality quite possibly led to the many problems resulting between the mothers and daughters. Esther's inability to cope with change led to her severe case of depression. Plath's dark and depressing poetry suggests a depressed mind frame."
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The Life of Sylvia Plath, 2006.
A review of the life and work of Sylvia Plath.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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Who was Sylvia Plath? Was she a crazy poet with the desire to destroy herself and those she loved? When her marriage failed was this the final steps to suicide? How did depression affect her writing and poetry? This paper discusses these questions in an attempt to try understand the life of Sylvia Plath. The paper looks at her biography while comparing her poetry, showing that Sylvia Plath was a mother, wife, poet, and writer, but no one totally understood her needs or desires that led her spiraling into despair.
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Sylvia Plath, 2002.
A biography of the life and work of the author Sylvia Plath.
784 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper looks at the life of Sylvia Plath, who spent her short adult life as a writer and whose works are held up today as classic pieces of poetry and literature and are examined for their undercurrents as well as their meanings. It discusses how since her self induced death there have been many admirers of her work. In particular it looks at two of her poems which are classic examples of the deep and complicated mind that penned her poems, "Mirror" and "In Plaster".
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"Plath was an overachiever her entire life. She skipped grades in school and won honors both academically and socially in her high school ventures. She often felt so torn between the academic and the social obligations that often clashed she became very hard on herself to succeed at both. ?In her Letters Home, she wrote, "I think I would like to call myself 'the girl who wanted to be God.' Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be- perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it." Plath obviously had a perfectionist attitude which drove her to succeed at the same time that it insured failure. This created a kind of destructive energy, which presents itself in her later writings.?"
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Sylvia Plath: A Tormented Mind, 2000.
A paper which explores the life and works of American poet, Sylvia Plath.
1,747 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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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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Sylvia Plath, 2005.
A biographical essay on the life and works of Sylvia Plath.
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This paper discusses the life and death of the famous poet, Sylvia Plath. The paper explores Plath's bipolar disorder and examines how it affected her everyday life and writings. The paper describes the trials and tribulations of her life and her many suicide attempts.
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"Sylvia Plath was a great twentieth century poetess whose writings were deeply impacted by her life and surroundings. Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Robinson Memorial Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She went through many hardships in her life that she described deeply throughout her poems. Her father's death and relationship with her husband caused her to have no trust at all for men; by writing these poems, Plath used this as a closure treatment for herself to release her inner hostility towards men. . "Sylvia wrote this poem about the many struggles in her life, that she felt was caused by either her father or her husband. All of these struggles left her with a feeling of insignificance toward men, primarily her father," (M, Patricia). Sylvia Plath was bipolar among many other famous poets like T.S. Elliot, Emerson, Whitman, and Edgar Allen Poe; but her disorder helped to make her writing more deeply intense."
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Sylvia Plath's poems, 2003.
Discusses tone in Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus".
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Confessional poets often write about their own personal experiences, without filtering painful emotions. One of the 1960s most influential confessional poets, Sylvia Plath, used the anger and grief that stemmed from her father?s death when she was only eight as the subject of many poems. This paper discusses tone in two of the most well-known Plath poems, ?Daddy? and ?Lady Lazarus,? in which she tackles her depression in very different ways. It shows how Plath?s word choice in both poems creates two opposing tones on similar subject matter. In ?Daddy,? Plath is clearly filled with bitterness and rage, but she is almost playful and sarcastic in ?Lady Lazarus.? The paper shows, too, how Plath channels her own personal world of suicidal escape in both poems, but she clearly changes tone in each by selecting words with specific meanings. Biographical information on Plath is also included.
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"Plath conveys this instability in her poem ?Daddy.? Written in 1962, twenty-two years after her father?s death and just one year before her suicide, ?Daddy? is not only an obvious cry for help but also a stream of unabashed rage toward the father who left her, the husband who betrayed her, and the circumstances that ultimately left her alone. Plath chooses words like ?Aryan eye,? ?swastika,? ?Fascist,? and ?devil? to associate with her father (?Daddy? 44, 46, 48, 54). All of these words conjure feelings of hatred and liken the father in the poem to someone like Adolf Hitler, a historical figure whose name is almost synonymous with oppression. This comparison is even more evident when Plath describes her father?s Hitleresque ?neat mustache? and ?bright blue? eyes (?Daddy? 43-44). Plath, as the speaker in ?Daddy,? calls herself a Jew and speaks from the perspective of an innocent who has been wrongly persecuted (?Daddy? 40)."
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Sylvia Plath's "Metaphors", 2005.
An in-depth analysis of "Metaphors" by Sylvia Plath.
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The paper looks ar Sylvia Plath's poem "Metaphors". This is an example of Plath's tightly controlled, allusive verse. The speaker in the poem states that she is a riddle; as the nine nine-syllable lines unfold with their nine metaphors, it becomes clear that the answer to the riddle is pregnancy. The speaker moves from the obvious negatives (the fatness and ungainliness) to the positives (fruitfulness) and on to the deeper-lying negatives (loss of control and loss of identity).
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"The poem "Metaphors" poses a riddle: it invites the reader to discover the situation of the poet through information disclosed in a series of metaphors. The metaphors, which equate the speaker with various disparate objects, do not, like similes, make a comparison with words such as "like" or "as". Rather they say that the poet "is" the unusual object mentioned. It is only but seeking the common thread in the objects cited that the reader can solve the riddle. Throughout the course of the poem, the poet calls herself "a riddle" (line 1), "an elephant" (line 2), "a...house" (line 2), "a melon" (line 3), a "loaf" (line 5), a "purse" (line 6), "a means" (line 7), "a stage" (line 7), and "a cow in calf" (line 7). A riddle is a construction within which a meaning is hidden."
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The Life of Sylvia Plath, 2006.
A look at the life of contemporary author Sylvia Plath.
966 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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In this paper the author looks at the troubled life of Sylvia Plath. He looks at her early years in the bosom of her family to the later years when she traveled with her husband. The author examines the near lack of relationship with her father due to his obsession with bees, which influenced Plath to write some of her most well known works such as "The Beekeepers Daughter" and "Sting". The author traces the life of Plath including her marriage to Ted Hughes the English poet and their turbulent relationship. He then highlights the events that led to her untimely suicide. The author concludes that Plath's emotions impacted her life deeply and through her writings is how she expressed them.
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"In 1936, the Plaths' picked up and moved to the seaside which was known as Winthrop, Massachusetts. While Sylvia Plath was inspired by the ocean to write poetry, her father's health was beginning to fail, which led to his death in 1940 of diabetes. Although Sylvia Plath was devastated by the sudden death of her father, she began writing at such an early age. She composed many different poems in which involved vivid images of her father, visions of bees, and images of the ocean. An example of one of her most popular poems is "Daddy". "Plath's was one of those rare poetic careers--Keats was another--that moved consistently and with gathering rapidity and assurance to an ever greater daring and individuality" (Pollitt 338)."
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"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, 2002.
An analysis of the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
1,233 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper presents an analysis of the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. Partially due to the success of her autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar", which details her partial recovery from suicidal depression, Plath?s poetry has been frequently analyzed through the lens of her clinical mental problems. This paper offers a similar point of view, studying "Daddy" in light of the author's mental state of mind. The paper brings to light a number of issues, evident in Plath's work, including the daughter's relationship with her father, fascism, class status, and anti-Semitism among others.
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"Plath?s own German heritage and her difficult relationship with her own father, who died at an early age, makes the highly personal interpretation of this poem often given by critics seem more justified. The poem is more complex than a pure confessional, however. ?Daddy? does attempt to create an analogy between the personal depression and despair of the poet that has caused her to embark upon unfulfilling and controlling relationships with men and a larger historical injustice of violence inflicted upon oppressed people and women. Ultimately, however, the end of the poem locates the work in the individual speaker?s unique personal despair and inner, rather than outer political conflicts."
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Sylvia Plath's "Lady Lazarus", 2007.
An analysis of the autobiographical nature of Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus."
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This paper explores the autobiographical nature of Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus." The paper describes the poet's use of the facts of her own inner life to make a universal statement about the human condition. It also discusses the symbolism of her references to the Holocaust within her poem. The paper concludes that Plath's poem is more than a simple autobiographical work.
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"In effect, her poem describes life itself as an ongoing act of dying. At the same time, it is seen as something of a miracle whenever someone reappears each day, essentially emerging from death and marveling at the reactions of others. Plath writes about her own life, but she does so in a way that is revealing to others. Other women may feel as trapped as she does and may empathize with her plight. Men as well can see into the working of her mind and discover something about themselves and the way they may also have similar feelings and reactions to life."
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Sylvia Plath: Tortured American Poet, 2005.
A brief biography of 20th century, American poet Sylvia Plath.
946 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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This paper begins with a look at the death by suicide of poet Sylvia Plath and her previous attempts at suicide throughout her life. The paper then looks at Plath's childhood, her relationship with her parents, her academic achievements, her marriage and her writings.
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"One of America's best known twentieth century poets, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) lived an artistically productive but tragic life, and committed suicide in 1963 while separated from her husband, the British poet Ted Hughes. Before her death at age 30, Sylvia Plath had suffered a bout of severe depression for several months, the likely result of her separation from Ted Hughes and her strong suspicion of his adultery with the English poet Assia Wevill ("Sylvia Plath"; "Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963" 2). Sylvia Plath had also made several previous suicide attempts, beginning at age 20, or perhaps even earlier, always precipitated by the spells of depression and debilitating self-doubt that dogged the poet from early adolescence on (Neurotic Poets, Sylvia Plath 6-7)."
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Sylvia Plath and Non-Traditional Gender Roles, 2002.
This paper explores the life of the tragic poetess Sylvia Plath and her struggle with the expectations of women in the 1950s.
2,380 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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Sylvia Plath's difficulty accepting quiet domestic life and inability to settle into a career as a poet are illustrated in her poem "Two Sisters of Persephone." The paper examines the roles of wives and mothers in the 1950s, and gives examples of Plath's own personal rebellion. The writer looks into several areas of Plath's life: her education, writing, sexuality, depression and motherhood.
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"Expectations for an American or British woman in the 1950s were fairly straightforward: Create a happy, healthy home for your husband. The reality was far more complicated. Working outside the home during World War II had given many women a desire for something more. They were no longer happy to merely press shirts and cook meals. These women longed to break free of traditional gender roles and have an impact on the fate of their family, the world, or both."
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