with bad people feeling that I am also bad./ or be afraid of my [genitals] being/ exposed known and/ seen—”, but also confesses that she is “very lonely” and paints the narrative of an exploited figure in short verse [Source F]. As aforementioned, Plath also depicted her personal experienced in her books, as well as being at the forefront of the confessional poetry movement. Her poem “The Applicant”specifically examines the construct of marriage, gender stereotypes and social pressures, while poems
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the protagonist, Jamaica Gollahue, nicknamed Jam, is sent by her parents to The Wooden Barn, a boarding school for emotionally hurt people, because her English boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield, "died". She attends a class called "Special Topics" to study Sylvia Plath's writing and read The Bell Jar, and she with four other students are given journals, by Mrs. Quenell, and are assigned to write about anything they wish. Jam soon discovers that writing in her journal brings her to another peaceful world with
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its seriously or peaceful from the way the stories put it.In the the sources “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “I am vertical” both somehow relate to death.Through “The Adventures of huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain and “I am vertical by Sylvia Plath, the works of A and B reveal that the concept of using syntax and diction is important because of the
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Joseph Campbell’s 17-stage monomyth acts as the guide to literary works and films, influencing pop culture such as song lyrics and award-winning movies. The stages serve as a basis for a journey the hero or heroine encounters with a successful, world-gaining achievement. The path includes archetypes including the deceiving temptress, the nurturing goddess, and the mortal or immortal mentor. However, Campbell’s beneficial ending does not follow through in every plot. For example, George Orwell’s Nineteen
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Ty Scott Professor Domingo Literary Heritage March 5, 2014 “Metaphors” is a poem written by Sylvia Plath that uses a metaphor in each line. A metaphor is a statement that has an underlying meaning that usually addresses an association between the statement and the underlying meaning. After reading the entire poem, it is not difficult to understand the subject matter of Sylvia’s poem; a pregnant woman. In order to figure out the metaphor, one must break down each line, because each line is a
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Red Pill or Blue Pill They say that the most intelligent people in life are the unhappy people. Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Vincent Van Gough some of the most famous people have committed suicide. When searching for truth and purpose within life one is subjecting themselves to a life of unhappiness. With every decision in one’s life one chooses whether to remain ignorant to their surroundings or to become knowledgeable to the absolute truth within life. I believe that it is in each individual’s
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1. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works
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Vampire Academy – Richelle Mead 1. Vampire Academy 2. Frostbite 3. Shadow Kiss 4. Blood Promise 5. Shadow Bound 6. Last Sacrifice Bloodlines – Richelle Mead 1. Bloodlines 2. The Golden Lily 3. The Indigo Spell 4. The Fiery Heart 5. Silver Shadows Southern Vampire Mysteries – Charlaine Harris 1. Dead Until Dark 2. Living Dead in Dallas 3. Club Dead 4. Dead to the World 5. Dead as a Doornail 6. Definitely Dead 7. All Together
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Age and Immortality are common contradictory themes of human nature--as a person gets older, their wish to live forever only grows deeper; they become desperate as they find a way, any way, to be able to defeat death and live generations into the future. Age is inevitable, and immortality is unachievable. It is for this reason that everyone rejects their old age and are eager to embrace the ideas of life past death. Many people chase power in pursuit of immortality, but many people do not realize
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has similarity with the views expressed by women poets in America regarding the inadequacy of language to express the inadequacy of language as women. Adrienne Rich has talked about “The Dream of a Common Language” in her latest book of poems. Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Marge Piercy, Louise Bogan have all touched on the problem they have come across , as women poets, in using the language to suit their sensibilities as women. Denise Levertov in a poem similar to Jennings’, says: “Relearn the alphabet/Relearn
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