Plath Essays

The ‘Medallion’ is about a dead snake that appears, by the description, at first, to be alive. ‘The bronze snake lay in the sun’, this portrays the picture of a beautiful creature basking in the sun. ‘Inert as a shoelace’ tells us that the snake is lifeless as well as …

The work of the confessional poet Sylvia Plath relates closely to issues that are the concerns of audiences today, forty years after her death. The relevance of her poems lies in the fact that, despite her cultural context of America and Europe in the 1950s and 60s, she writes about …

In poems “Mirror” and “The Road Not Taken” by Sylvia Plath and Robert Frost respectively, the authors extensively make use of images to convey to the audience the feelings of the characters and the flow of events. In her poem, Plath uses the voice of a mirror that sees the …

Sylvia Plath wrote the bell jar shortly written after her suicide; Esther Greenwood takes her burden of being the representative of Plath in an unreliable narrator’s point of view autobiography. Ted Hughes, the British poet who was known as much for his doomed marriage to the American poet Sylvia Plath …

Sylvia Plath was one of the leading poets of her time. She was born in Boston and later moved to England where she met and married a leading English poet Ted Hughes. Both her and Hughes were unhappy in their relationship. This lead Plath to become suicidal and paranoid, which …

I am comparing and contrasting the poems ‘Blackberrying’ by Sylvia Plath and ‘Blackberry Picking’ by Seamus Heaney. Both poems are about blackberries and the totally different situations in which people pick them. Both poets write in an autobiographical way and the poems are set at the same time of year, …

Normalcy is boring. Walking past a storefront, if a person sees out of the corner of their eye something they’ve seen in the past four stores, they won’t take a second glance. On the other hand if they saw something detailed and abstract, it stands out and piques their interest. …

The first twelve stanzas of the poem reveal the extent of the speaker’s possession by what, in psychoanalytic terms, is the imago of the father—a childhood version of the father which persists into adulthood. This imago is an amalgamation of real experience and archetypal memories wherein the speaker’s own psychic …

In the Poem “Lady Lazarus”, poet Sylvia Plath uses allusions, symbolism, and irony to convey to the audience the theme “Oppression leads to an eventual rebellion.” The poems shows Plath’s own suicide attempt and tells us little of the actual event. Plath’s suicide and depression dealt with multiple factors such …

“…This essential peculiarity of the psychopath is not in itself evil or vicious, but combined with perverse appetites or with an unusually hostile or aggressive temperament, the lack of these normal constraints can result in an explosive and dangerous package.” Within “The American Psycho”, Bret Easton Ellis composes a narrative …