Literary, the death of human beings is usually described in sad wording with a darker perspective. However, the essay “Behind the Formaldehyde Curtain”, written by Jessica Mitford, is a contrast of the way people usually describing death, and she gives an almost full presentation about the process “embalming” in an interesting perspective, she also wants to introduce “embalming” to the readers through her article. This essay will analyze the author’s rhetorical technique, literary elements that Mrs
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Sylvia Plath had a life full of ups and downs. Her lifelong battle with multiple different illnesses is what made her career but also ended it at the same time. Using her research along with the research of other Dr. Jamison was able to make a “literary, biographical, and scientific argument for a compelling association, not to say actual overlap, between two temperaments--the artistic and the manic-depressive—and their relationship to the rhythms and cycles, or temperament, of the natural world
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ideas that were thought of as taboo in those times such as mental illness, sexuality, and suicide. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were two famous confessional poets. They both also suffered from mental illness which is often expressed in their poetry. Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and Anne Sexton’s “Her Kind” both use allusions and imagery to convey their emotions to the reader. In Sylvia Plath’s poem, there is an allusion in the title itself, “Lady Lazarus.” Lazarus refers to the biblical
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My interpretation of "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath Marlene Williams Eng/125 December 15, 2012 Michele Watson My interpretation of "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is a dark and solemn journey through the thoughts of a young girl scorned. This young girl becomes the woman who continues to carry the burden of her childhood in her adult life. The setting and feeling of the poem is dismal and full of rage, a rage Sylvia Plath claims to put behind her in the last line “ / Daddy, daddy
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hard as the other poems, as we can see the meaning is not so complicated. “Death & Co” written by Sylvia Plath around the timeline of world war II, this poem clearly shows the events and distress that was going around at the time. Death has been described as two people in the poem, “Two, of course there are two” the first being demonic, evil and ugly; this face of death is so evil and ugly that Plath called it “Bastard”', the second death character is amusing, he smokes and smiles (contrasting the
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English Literature, Archaeology and Anthropology. While at Cambridge, he met his first wife, Sylvia Plath, whom he married in 1956. After university he had various jobs, including working in a zoo, teaching and reading scripts at Pinewood Studios. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes had two children but later separated. In the year after their separation she committed suicide. Hughes followed his relationship with Plath by one with Assia Wevill. They lived together and she looked after his children from his
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Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” There is no doubt that Sylvia Plath is definitely one of the most diverse controversial poets of our time. Sylvia Plath was born October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts and unfortunately passed away on February 11, 1963 in London, England due to her battle with suicide. The poem relates to her life and also her perspective of the world. As a matter of fact, critics often characterized her as “extreme,” due to the deep emotional issues that she would write about.
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William George Butcher ENG 150 February 12, 2015 Journal Entry One Art Discuss the use of repetition in any of this week’s poems Elizabeth Bishop was an awardwinning American poet, whose life spanned from 1911 to 1979. During her life she received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the honor of being named Poet Laureate of the United States. She wrote in a time that was heavily influenced by the Great Depression as well a
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Mary Shelley suffered a plethora of tragedies in her early life. She endured the death of mother, her estranged relationship with her father, the death of three of her children soon after they were born, her step sister committed suicide, and her husband ended up dying in a fishing accident. She wrote Frankenstein in the midst of all the tragedy and there is a chance she could have been suffering from depression. Depression is more than just sadness, it is a medical condition where a person feels
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Gayle Forman is a 47 year old female author that lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and kids. Based on Gayle's appearance, the public community usually confuses her gender with a male but she is, in fact, a female (“13 Things”). Gayle expresses her emotions by writing books, and as she puts it, she writes “because it’s cheaper than therapy (“13 Things”).Gayle said that there were three reasons why she wanted to become an author; boredom, destitution, and escapism (“13 Things”). Before Gayle
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