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About the Poet: Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century, who had established this reputation by the age of thirty. Her violent emotions and obsession with death is something that caught the eye of multitude readers. She is believed to be one of the most controversial postwar poets. In… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of By Candlelight by Sylvia Plath: 2022
INTRODUCTION TO SYLVIA PLATH- Sylvia Plath is regarded as one of the greatest American poet. Plath was born in Boston, in the year 1932 and her life took an abrupt change after the death of her father in 1940. Plath is known for her brutal works that revolve around the genres of death, mental illness and… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Arrival of The Bee Box by Sylvia Plath: 2022
About Sylvia Plath: Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, US. She showed the makings of a poet an artist starting from an early age. She published her first poem as an eight year old. Her father died when she was about eight years old which led her to have ambivalent feelings towards… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Applicant by Sylvia Plath: 2022
About the author: Sylvia Plath is one of the few American women of the mid-twentieth century who was an exceptional poet, a novelist, and a writer who never forgot to give her short stories a periphrastic touch, which in turn attracted her readers to delve into the inner recesses into her mind and conscience. Boston-born… Continue reading Medusa: Summary and Analysis: 2023
Morning Song: About the Poet Credited as the exponent of confessional poetry, Sylvia Plath was mostly known for her two collections of poetry, The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel. The American poet, short story writer, and novelist Plath was born in Boston and was married to Ted Hughes, a fellow writer whom she later… Continue reading Morning Song: Summary and Analysis: 2023
Daddy was written on October 12, 1962, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel in 1965. Though most of Plath’s poetry centers around her loss of her father and her relationship with him, this poem perhaps is the most explicit. When we deal with Plath we often involve ourselves with the psychological aspects of her relationship… Continue reading Critical Analysis of Daddy by Sylvia Plath: 2022
In Daddy Plath draws the reader’s gaze to the connection with the story of Electra: [The poem] is spoken by a girl with an Electra Complex. Her father died while she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly part… Continue reading Daddy Poem Summary by Sylvia Plath: 2022
The poem Winter Landscape with Rooks is one of the typical Plath poems. In this article we have attempted Winter Landscape with Rooks analysis by Sylvia Plath. The poem with it gloomy and darkened background can hardly be studied without biographical references of the poet. The poem was written in 1956, the year she got… Continue reading Winter Landscape with Rooks Analysis by Sylvia Plath: 2022
