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not constitute beauty; it only reflects back the physical parameters of what it sees. The fact that occasional "faces" disturb its...
In five pages Sylvia Plath's poetry is considered in an analysis of reader experiences and how their tragic elements differ from t...
was not just one simple dream that Plath had, but an ongoing connection or vision of these three old women, these three witches wh...
suggests, there is often a political context to Olds observations. For example, in "The Death of Marilyn Monroe," Olds suggests ...
topic was greatly on her mind. This can be discerned due to the fact that the poem is written as a riddle with "pregnancy" as the ...
poem begins with darkness, of the raw pain of expectancy. And everything, from that point forward, is motion(Annas 171-183). The s...
as perhaps a Jew. This presents us with imagery, symbolic references, to the confused state of Plath in terms of her own identity....
were attracted to writing poetry while very young and both were encouraged by their families (McHenry, 1995). Both the Pl...
In five pages this paper presents a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus.' Four pages are cited in the bibliogr...
poetry as the stresses. It is because of this particular styling that syllabic poems most often contain no rhyme or uniform numbe...
Suicide and self-negation as performance art are examined in a critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's 1962 poem, "Lady Lazarus" in a ...
is characteristic of Plaths works. "Back of the Connecticut, the river-level Flats of Hadley...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
bees), and her mother, a former student of Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from ca...
that have molded Esthers negativism. Her home life has instilled in her a constant need to pushed herself. Due to her low self-est...
the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his gra...
of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...
read into the poem a bit more and might surmise that this boy is rather insecure and needs his girl to be seen by others in a posi...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...
This paper offers two blog posts. One on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and the other on "Sex without Love" by Sharon Olds....
This paper consists of five pages and discusses Canadian playwright Sharon Pollock's play about Lizzie Borden entitled Blood Relat...
to do something about her problem, but as we can see, it is not something that can be fixed, and we learn it is not something that...
a sufferer from mental illness, which may have been triggered at least in part by her fathers death during her childhood....
In six pages this paper examines how poetry can be used to express a poet's crisis in 'Lady Lazarus' by Sylvia Plath and 'My Life ...
Sylvia Plaths life parallels Esthers in significant ways. For example, Esthers father in the novel has died when his daughter was ...
the word, exact, which, when in reference to herself is in opposition to her general style of writing. She writes in symbolic lan...
Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...
This paper consists of five pages and considers the difficult relationships with men and what they represent in the lone novel by ...
This paper examines the self actualization of women in an analysis of the poems 'Daddy' and 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath and the novel...
audience must be moved by Willy Loman, a 63-year-old man who has become tired of chasing the ever-elusive American Dream, always f...