Sylvia Plath's Dark Imagery in "Tulips," "Daddy" and "Poppies in July" Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 9 pages of analysis of Sylvia Plath's Dark Imagery in "Tulips," "Daddy" and "Poppies in July".

Sylvia Plath's Dark Imagery in "Tulips," "Daddy" and "Poppies in July" Essay | Essay

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Sylvia Plath's Dark Imagery in "Tulips," "Daddy" and "Poppies in July"

Summary: Analysis of the imagery used in three Sylvia Plath poems: "Daddy," "Tulips," and "Poppies in July." All three are personal poems that deal with dark subjects in Plath's life: her hatred of her father, thoughts of suicide, and depression and exhaustion.
Sylvia Plath is probably one of the most influencial poets of the 1960s and like every confessional writer her work aims to reflect her own and personal experiences, whithout filtering any painful emotions. Therefore Plath's weight of words as well as the colors she uses in each image and the sound that she incorporates are all crucial to decipher her state of mind but also what she truly meant in "Daddy", "Poppies in July" and "Tulips" not unly upon the surface but also when looking much deeper .

The first poem, "Daddy", written in 1962, twenty-two years after her father's death and just one year before her suicide, is not only an obvious cry of help but also a stream of unbashed rage towards the father who left her, the husband who betrayed her and the circumstances that ultimately left her alone . It is thanks her gift of association as...

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