“Blackberries” the authors Sylvia Plath and Yusef Komunyakaa both use diction‚ imagery‚ and figurative language to establish symbols that work to impact the overall tone of the poem. In “BlackBerrying” Sylvia Plath uses blackberries to symbolize her loneliness. While Komunyakaa uses blackberries to symbolize his innocence in a world were the rich look down on the poor. First of all‚ Plath and Komunyakaa both use symbols that impact the overall tone of their poems. Sylvia Plath demonstrates her emotional
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Introduction: Inky Shadows Movie Actors Scribbling Letters Very Fast in Crucial Scenes The velocity with which they write – Don’t you know it? It’s from the heart! They are acting the whole part out. Love! Has taken them up – Like writing to god in the night. Meet me! I’m dying! Come at once! The crisis is on them‚ the shock Drives from the nerve to the pen‚ Pours from the blood into ink.
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The stories of the female protagonist in each novel are very different. The author of The Bell Jar‚ Silvia Plath‚ lived from 1932 through 1963‚ as a writer her options were limited on the basis of her gender. During the era‚ society had constructed roles that were deemed acceptable for women and men. Those set roles included a dominant working man and housewife or mother. Sylvia Plath and the main character in The Bell Jar‚ Esther Greenwood‚ shared many commonalties. Esther felt she would never
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by assuming that any connection to the beauties of nature implies a positive connotation; however‚ it can be argued that nature’s attributes are mostly associated with negative references such as liminal space‚ phallic symbols‚ and death. Both Sylvia Plath in "The Night Dances" and Seamus Heaney in "Ocean’s Love to Ireland" use nature to create clear imagery in their poems in a manner that
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• Duality ‘if not red‚ then white;’ ‘only the bookshelves escaped into whiteness.’ • Sylvia: Red is a life force‚ vitality‚ the sun; Hughes: Red is blood‚ macabre‚ etc. • White: sanitised hospitals‚ death‚ decay. In asia: mourning. Also cleanliness. “bone clinic whiteness.” • Contrast: Each party’s different meanings for the respective colours. • Repition of “blood” • ‘the family bones’ – reference to plath’s father. • ‘when YOU had YOUR way‚’ insinuating Plath’s dominance in the relationship
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‘Your Paris’ present the main issues of Birthday Letters? (Reference to two other poems) Ted Hughes’ poem ‘Your Paris’ was written about Ted Hughes’ and Sylvia Plath’s visit to Paris shortly after their marriage on 16 June 1956. The poem is part of the collection ‘Birthday Letters’ published in 1998‚ 35 years after the suicide of Sylvia Plath and so is written (as most of the collection) with the benefit of Hindsight and so Hughes is able to relate their trip to Paris to the future of their relationship
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may influence them physically‚ emotionally or mentally. It is through these influences‚ which can be positive or negative‚ that a person becomes who they are. The novel‚ Tirra Lirra by the River‚ the film‚ Good Will Hunting and the poem‚ Daddy by Sylvia Plath all demonstrate the idea of self discovery
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shows how the audience this poem is built for is those who reside in America. Plath is deliberately trying to send a message to Americans so that they will regain their sense of self rather than easily giving up to Media’s never-ending attempts to brainwash society. Word choices such as ‘movies’ and ‘headlines’ show how media objectifies issues such as the Holocaust and war in general‚ creating a glamourized idea of war. Plath writes about how after these movies we talk about such ‘thin’ people are ‘unreal’
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poems‚ Birthday Letters (1998)‚ illustrates his personal perspective on his life with Sylvia Plath. The poems ‘Fulbright Scholars’ and ‘Sam’ reveal an array of conflicting perspectives effectively depicted by Hughes. The film The Triumph directed by Randa Haines in 2006 also demonstrates the conflicting perspectives between characters and settings. ‘Fulbright Scholars’ depicts Hughes first sighting of Sylvia Plath as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in an article in the newspaper. The poem
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