Writer Essays

In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy”, Plath makes many connections between her stifling father and her own husband. Plath discusses her conflicts with her own father, which do not end with his death, but continue when she marries a man just like her father. Plath displays a sort of evolution of her feelings for her father, […]

‘Lady Lazarus’ was written by Sylvia Plath. On a literal level, this poem is about death and attempting suicide. It is most likely that it was written from Plath’s personal experience as she was known for her suicidal nature. This poem has 28 tercet stanzas. There is no clear rhyme scheme yet rhyming can be […]

The three poems used in this essay are: “The Meal”, “My papa’s Malts”, and “Daddy”. All three poems were written and created in such a descriptive manner with the use of images that stimulates the imagination and the senses of the readers. Thus, imagery plays a role in each of the three aforementioned poems to […]

In Hughes’ poem RED, the last in his anthology, Birthday Letters, Hughes adapts/ subverts Plath’s style of utilising colours to represent various feelings and ideas. Early in their marriage Plath wrote to her mother claiming “I am so suggestible to colours…I’m sure a red carpet would keep me forever optimistic” Hughes plays on Plath’s decision […]

Infamous for her use of oven gas for a method of suicide while her children were at play, Sylvia Plath was an American confessional poet, novelist and short story writer. After suffering from depression from the age of 20 and a marital separation, Plath committed suicide in 1963. Controversy continues to surround the events of […]

The poems that one has chosen to discuss about are ‘The Road not taken’ by Robert Frost, ‘Blackberrying’ by Sylvia Path, ‘Afternoons’ By Philip Larkin and ‘Churning Day’ by Seamus Heaney. All of these poems use nature to describe their actions in life. The Road Not Taken is a poem about one man’s journey in […]

Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath both approach death and ageing in their poems. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about blackberry picking. It has a meaning to it. It explains in his words how things age and die. I shall refer another Seamus Heaney poem and two of Sylvia Plath’s poems to “Blackberry Picking. ” Seamus […]

‘The Bell Jar’ by Sylvia Plath and ‘Oranges are not the only fruit’ by Jeanette Winterson are two quite diverse novels in more respects than one. ‘The Bell Jar’ is a semi-autobiographical critically acclaimed novel that explores the effects of insanity in the form of depression on a gifted academic, who was popular amongst her […]

Sylvia Plath was a brilliant writer and is my favourite writer on our course. She was also highly accomplished in other fields, was an intense and complex woman, and a woman who was frequently ill. She died at a young age. It is often the latter facts that come to mind when we think of […]

Sylvia Plath is an American poet, novelist and short story writer who lived in London, United Kingdom. She is considered an important poet of her generation. Her work is very personal and towards the end of her life she often wrote about death. She usually used confessional genre to write her poetry. She is Best-known […]

It would be an understatement to say that Sylvia Plath was a troubled woman. She was a dark poet who made several suicide attempts, spent time in a mental institution, and went through a divorce while raising two children. Her confessional poems explored themes such as fetuses, reflection, duality, and the female experience of life. […]

According to Karl Marx, the bourgeoisie encompasses individuals such as business owners who possess wealth. In contrast, the proletariat refers to the working class. This idea can be compared to a verse I admire from the Broadway Musical Sweeney Todd. In the song “No Place Like London,” it illustrates that “At the top of the […]

The poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath demonstrates the use of random metaphors in nine lines. However, I see this poem as Plath’s comparison of pregnancy to seemingly unrelated objects. Each line in “Metaphors” offers a clue that hints at the portrayal of the process of pregnancy. The poem begins with the line, “I’m a riddle […]

Tangled Up in New Bob Dylan and Intertextuality Appropriation has always played a key role in Bob Dylan’s music. Critics and fans alike have found striking similarities between Dylan’s lyrics and the words of other writers. On his album “Love and Theft,” a fan spotted many passages similar to lines from “Confessions of a Yakuza,” […]

“Alienation is defined as emotional isolation or dissociation from others … it is the feeling of not belonging” The theme of Alienation is explored in both TS Eliot’s, The love song and Preludes and it is explored though many poetic techniques including repetition and animal imagry. In both of these poems the persona is alienated […]

History is often seen as a way of advancing to the next stage and improving the cultural values of the past. However, for T. S. Eliot, modernity had ruptured its connection to a more vital past and was as a result Impoverished. History Is Instead characterized by regression and ruptures. In his essay, “Tradition and […]

“We all have sleeping kingdoms of esthesia which can be coaxed into wakefulness by books. ” [ Robertson Davies. A Voice From the Attic: Essaies on the Art of Reading 13 ( New York: Penguin Books. rpm. erectile dysfunction. . 1990 ) ] “ [ L ] iterature is an art. and. . . as […]

“The Waste Land” (1922) is one of the most outstanding poems of the 20th century written by the great master Thomas Stearns Eliot. The poem expresses with great power the devastation, decay, futility and despair of the civilization after World War I. In this essay I would like to comment upon the structure as well […]

T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land is an intricate poem that is intentionally difficult to understand; it contains a myriad of allusions to other texts, it has a fragmented narrative structure, speaks in various languages and utilizes surreal imagery. These features, amongst others, contribute to the poem’s complexity. I wish to examine, in detail, how […]

During two important periods in literature, poetry and prose were both considered art forms and occupations for the educated. These periods are known as the Victorian era or Romantic Poetry and modern poetry. The selected poems for analysis are T.S Eliot’s The Waste Land and Robert Browning’s Memorabilia. The article compares two poems, giving a […]

At the beginning of T. S. Eliot’ s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, there stands an epigraph from Dante’s Inferno, Canto 27. This epigraph unifies the text and brings, through its imagery and context, a deeper understanding of Eliot’s poem. Prufrock represents both of the characters in this section of the Inferno, […]

Unlike the other settings in the book, the valley of ashes is a picture of absolute desolation and poverty. It lacks a glamorous surface and lays fallow and grey halfway between West Egg and New York. Fitzgerald portrays this imagery by the use of “Ashes grow like wheat” suggesting the growth of people who inhabit […]