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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar , a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Sylvia Plath at twenty-eight years old sitting in her London flat during July 1961 "Daddy" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath.The poem was composed on October 12, 1962, one month after her separation from Ted Hughes and four months before her death.
Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit" is a short story by Sylvia Plath, written in 1955. It deals with children's fantasies (about Superman) and with how children can put blame on others for their material losses (a ruined snowsuit) and easily fall into collective blaming. When you are accused of something, in reality Superman is never ...
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...
Plath's professor Alfred Young Fisher drew a parallel between the poem and James Joyce's Ulysses. In a manuscript held in the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith College , his margin notes appear to compare the poem's last line "And that is that, is that, is that" with Joyce's repetition in the line "showed me her next year in drawers return next ...
"Ariel" is composed of ten three-line stanzas with an additional single line at the end, and follows an unusual slanted rhyme scheme. Literary commentator William V. Davis notes a change in tone and break of the slanted rhyme scheme in the sixth stanza which marks a shift in the theme of the poem, from being literally about a horse ride, to more of a metaphoric experience of oneness with the ...
Plath uses personification in "Mad Girl's Love Song", giving the stars in the ability to "waltz" and darkness the ability to "gallop". Plath uses anaphora, repeating the pronoun "I" at the beginning of 13 of the 19 lines within the poem. The continued recurrent imagery of isolation and darkness juxtaposed with fiery and loud imagery also ...