small losses of a missing sock to the often overwhelming loss of the death of a loved one, loss comes to everyone in various forms. The nature of loss, however, makes it a rich topic for poetic endeavors. In both “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop and “Lady Lazarus” by Sylvia Plath, the poets write to conceptualize and understand their losses, ultimately applying radically opposing solutions to the same emotional struggle. Elizabeth Bishop was a high-caliber poet known for her excellent use of form and
human experience displayed within metaphorical language, tones, and imagery in poetry that compels the readers to respond to ideas. Poets conjure emotional reactions from the audience by developing a sense of anger, or unsettlement in Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,” and “Daddy”. While there are juxtapositions between how we can feel about a certain idea, such as in Dylan Thomas’s “And Death Shall Have No Dominion,” causes the readers to establish a positive idea about death, and how it can bring peace
is Plath’s use of the metaphor Nazis and the Holocaust, the themes of Identity and Suffering. The metaphor of Nazis and the Holocaust to me explains the extent of her suffering/ grief. The theme of Identity to me means who a person is/ the qualities of a person that makes them different from others, people can lose their sense of identity. The theme of Suffering to me means undergoing pain/ distress from a traumatic experience. The four text I decided to study are Daddy, Tulips, Lady Lazarus and
Sexton’s poem describes Plath's children as “two meteors.” A meteor is an enormously destructive force and to compare a person's children to it implies that Sexton believes they were one of the causes of her suicide. This idea is unsettling as a person's child is meant to only be
depression, the poor marriage she had and the events of her childhood, made a significant impact on her multiple suicide attempts which ultimately lead to her placing her head in the oven and killing herself. The idea of death is very apparent in many of Plath’s poems, she constructed her views and opinions of death from her external surroundings and experiences. By taking an external approach to the idea of death, Plath was able to display her poems and stories in a way that was much like a cry for help
Plath’s use of metaphor is effective in highlighting her depressive state, Plath often used metaphors frequently and used them as a contrast to her own reality. Through Plath’s poetry, we understand that she was conflicted about being a woman and often viewed the world with a very childlike mindset. Plath’s poem “The Munich Mannequins”, is a poem which floats between two images of womanly barrenness through the image of anonymous mannequins to the hotels of Munich where the occupants are just as
Sylvia Plath's Life Shown in Her Work Sylvia Plath is often described as a feminist poet who wrote about the difficulties women faced before women's right were a mainstream idea. From reading her poetry, it is quite obvious that Plath's feminism is extremely important to her, but she also wrote about a lot of day to day experiences and made them significant through her use of literary devices such as metaphors and symbols. Plath may also be best known for her autobiographical poetry written in a
demonstrates this subject matter would be Lady Lazarus. Plath writes, ¨Dying/ Is an art, like everything else¨. The entire poem is very brutal and tells her story of death. Alluding to her first suicide, she talks of dying other times, and will continue to do it in the future. Plath thinks of death as something she needs and it is something to do as entertainment for others. In addition, the poem's name references to death, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. Next, in the poem Ariel
obvious that Plath's feminism is extremely important to her, but she also wrote about a lot of day to day experiences and made them significant through her use of literary devices such as metaphors and symbols. Plath may also be best known for her autobiographical poetry written in a confessional style that appeared during the 1950s. She is considered a very important poet of the post-World War II era. She became widely known following her suicide in 1963 (Bawer). Through Sylvia Plath's poetry, readers
obsession she has with her fathers’ control. Plath’s partner ‘said he was you’, and she uses the metaphor of vampire in order to convey how her partner, and by extension her father, drained her of life driving her to suicide. Plath shows the inner conflict she faces about the absence of her father through the pronouns used. As Daddy progresses, the pronoun ‘you’ is more frequently used which has the effect of accusing her father of leaving her. As Plath’s desire to be controlled is shown throughout