Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963)
(Also wrote under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas) American poet, novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist, and scriptwriter.
Sylvia Plath: Introduction
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Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Author Sylvia Plath's association with death and madness stemmed from her confessional poetry, her novel The Bell Jar, and the facts of her life, but most of all from ...
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), poet and novelist, explored her obsessions with death, self, and nature in works that expressed her ambivalent attitudes toward the universe.Sylvia Plath was born in Boston's...
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In "Three Women," the final poem of Winter Trees (1971), Sylvia Plath speaks through the voice of a woman in a maternity ward, whose words provide a fitting statement for the poet's singular fixation ...
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Although most of her creative energies were directed toward poetry, Sylvia Plath produced one novel, The Bell Jar (1963), a striking work which has contributed to her reputation as a significant figur...
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In his introduction to The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-62 (1982), her husband, poet Ted Hughes, wrote that she wore "many masks" but that he believes he knew her "real self" -- "the self I had marr...
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Biography EssayNow famous for her ritual flirtations with death, Sylvia Plath has emerged as a significant fig- ure in contemporary American literature in the two and a half decades since her suicide ...
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During the 1950's "Confessional" writing was a term not yet created. America had rarely dealt with ideas one felt so bluntly publicized to the world. It was not until Sylvia Plath began to share her...
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The pain the poet experiences during and prior to the creative process results in blood flood, which is the release and birth of words, the relentless stream of poetry. The poet bleeds the poems. They...
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A victim of her own surroundings, Plath was self obsessed in her need to understand her own torture. Her poetry, carefully crafted from past experiences, was her medium for venting and expressing her ...
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How can a person with a mental illness be so mad, but a the same be a poetic genius". A lot of us see a person with a mental illness as dumb, retarded, and a level different from where a 'normal human...
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Throughout the essay I will be explaining what form of poetry meter is being used in certain poems, how imagery is detailed and explain rhyming patterns that have been used as well as giving my own an...
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Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Otto and Aurelia Plath. Plath's father, Otto, immigrated to America from Germany when he was just sixteen years old...
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Sylvia Plath was a typical example of her generation, inpatient and greedy for life but this description has a bit different meaning. Plath indeed desired artistic fulfilment but she wanted to be an...
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Two Sisters of Persephone, written by Sylvia Plath depicts two very different lives of a renown Greek deity. Her ability to effectively portray completely contrasting environments through structure, t...
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Sylvia Plath's poetry takes a strong stance on the various aspects of power in the area of gender relations. She takes on a unique approach to criticise and reject patriarchal attitudes and values by...
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In society, women in the past and even in the present have suffered some form of oppression due to their female identity and the patriarchal world in which they live. Therefore, to reflect this many t...
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Plath, Sylvia
Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
