Literary Analysis Of Sylvia Plaths Mirror - 1075 Words

Poetry lives in spaces where ordinary language cannot do the work, it finds a way to survive through intros in rap songs, commercials or ads, and monologues in movies. Poetry depicts the emotions nobody dares to talk about in public and shows how much a situations can impact you. These events create emotions into art. Sylvia Plath’s story and motive to write poems begins around the same time her father passes, an event that will impact her poetry deeply. A little after Plath’s eighth birthday her father dies from a case of diabetes that he ignores to treat. Plath published one of her first poems at the early age of eight in the children’s section of the Boston Herald. Later, in 1950, she is accepted by Smith College, where she meets an†¦show more content†¦She teaches at Smith and writes. Hughes and Plath eventually go back to England where Plath suffers from a miscarriage and goes on to give birth to two other children. Her and Hughes marriage didnâ⠂¬â„¢t go too well, her husband having mistresses. In 1963, Plath wrote â€Å"Daddy† while they were in the process of divorcing. In Daddy Sylvia Plath uses metaphors and imagery to portray herself as a victim who feels resentment and sadomanchism. In the first stanza Plath begins by saying, You do not do, you do not do/ Anymore black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white,/ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo(Daddy). In the poem the word achoo represents the German word Achtung, it suggests that Plath is using the word to illustrate Nazi atrocities which will help to introduce the metaphor for her situation. A critic, Mary Lynn Broe, from Poetry for Students writes the real victim is the poet-performer who, despite her straining toward identification with the public events of holocaust and destruction of World War II, becomes more murderously persecuting than the â€Å"panzer-man† who smothered her, and who abandoned her with a paradoxical love, guilt, and fear(Broe 80). In other words Broe is saying that she is using imagery to show that Plath is the victim while she p aints her father as this model and power over her and her emotions. As the poem goes on we get to stanza two where she begins by saying, Daddy IShow MoreRelatedBiography of Sylvia Plath1452 Words   |  6 PagesCritical Analysis Sylvia Plath, a great American author, focuses mostly on actual experiences. Plath’s poetry displays feelings and emotions. Plath had the ability to transform everyday happenings into poems or diary entries. Plath had a passion for poetry and her work was valued. She was inspired by novelists and her own skills. Her poetry was also very important to readers and critics. Sylvia Plath’s work shows change throughout her lifetime, relates to feelings and emotions, and focuses on dayRead MoreOutline Structure For Literary Analysis : Daffodils By Ted Hughes960 Words   |  4 PagesOutline Structure for Literary Analysis Essay I. An Enemy or a Friend: â€Å"Daffodils† by Ted Hughes II. Paragraph 1: Introduction A.)This poem is focused all about daffodil flowers which i believe is a resemblance of his wife Sylvia Plath. B. The author of the poem is Ted Hughes .The poem is based around how years Hughes and his children would sell the daffodils to make a living but never realized how much they were taking the daffodil for grant. C. The title of the poem is â€Å"Daffodils.† F. The mainRead MoreHow Sylvia Plaths Life is Reflected in the Poems Daddy, Morning Song, and Lady Lazarus2237 Words   |  9 PagesHow Sylvia Plaths Life is Reflected in the Poems Daddy, Morning Song, and Lady Lazarus Sylvia Plath has had an exciting life, if I can use this word. Her father died from an undiagnosed diabetes when she was eight. At the same time, a short couplet that she wrote was published in the Boston Sunday Herald. Later, she won scholarships to study in Smith, Harvard, and finally Cambridge. There, Plath married Ted Hughes, who was a good poet, too. What amazes me in her lifeRead MoreThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath1211 Words   |  5 PagesSylvia Plath Research Paper Title The Bell Jar place[s] [the] turbulent months[of an adolescent’s life] in[to] mature perspective (Hall, 30). In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath uses parallelism, stream of consciousness, the motif of renewal and rebirth, symbolism of the boundary-driven entrapped mentally ill, and auto-biographical details to epitomize the mental downfall of protagonist, Esther Greenwood. Plath also explores the idea of how grave these timeless and poignant issues can affect a fragile