Essays on Sylvia Plath

How the poetry of Sylvia Plath and ONE other related text of your choice encapsulate binary metaphors of the Cold War era. Governing the post war era was a cloud of irrevocable anxiety that loomed over the world cripplining society into a state of powerlessness...

In her poem, “Ariel” Sylvia Plath’s morbid tone is complimented by metaphorical imagery of death that compares her journey towards her own demise with that of a wild horse ride. The poem depicts a woman desperately hanging on to Ariel, a crazed horse who “hauls...

Different techniques can be used to tell the message of the story. This could be imagery, symbolism, personification, alliteration and more. Each author would want to send a separate message through their story and the audience can interpret they way they want. The stories “Flight”...

This poem starts off by the speaker saying that her father no longer does anything anymore and calls him a black shoe. She says that for thirty years she has lived like a foot and has been poor and didn’t dare to breathe or sneeze....

Many people experience excruciating childhoods that later lead into our older ages of life, an author that had a rough childhood is Sylvia Plath. According to Biography. com, Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath, died when she...

Ted Hughes’s Birthday Letter and Sylvia Plath’s Ariel: The Restored Edition are both books containing a series of confessional poems. Both poets are regarded as one of the most influential literary couple in the world. The relationship between Hughes and Plath remained controversial in the...