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  • Confessional Poetics: Sylvia Plath

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    vandc23

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    The three poems I chose are “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, “The Applicant” by Sylvia Plath, and “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was only 8 when she wrote her first poem. Before her father passed away when she was 8 years old, her parents’ relationship was not healthy. She attended Smith Plath College, where…

  • Confessional Poetry

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    sosaam08

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    “In Celebration of My Uterus” This poem nods to Confessional poetry for many different reasons. Usually, Confessional poetry has negative tones such as grief, loneliness, or despair. This poem, however, is a positive and celebratory look at her own body. The personification of her uterus (Sexton, lines 1-19) directly addresses a bodily function which was…

  • Sexton’s life expressed through poems

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    vogeec11

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    All My Pretty Ones  The poem All My Pretty Ones talks about how the writer lost her father and how she is having a hard time grieving him. Confessionalism is shown in this poem because the poem is diving into the message of personal trauma. The personal trauma comes from the loss of the writer’s…

  • Hard Times Though Poetry with Plath

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    vanda17

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    Trigger warning – suicide Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 and took her life at the age of 30 in 1963. She was born in Boston to a German immigrant, Otto Plath, and a student of his, Aurelia Schober. Sylvia was a gifted student and during her years as an undergraduate student, that’s when she…

  • The Feelings of Love

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    reecm12

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    Throughout the poem, “One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII” by Pablo Neruda, the poet explores the feelings of love. When reading the poem, Neruda often addresses love in the context of relationships with flowers, such as carnations. He uses the characteristics of the flowers to form what being in love feels like to him. “I love…

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    Oh, to be loved

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    lohrb06

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    Oh, to be loved In the 1600’s these men couldn’t bare to not be loved or give love. Shakespeare had to write about how much love he had for someone, because he couldn’t live with the thought of their love not out lasting them. He compared her to how everyone looks forward to summer days,…

  • The Not So Secret Life of Sylvia Plath

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    kapik12

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    Sylvia Plath wrote multiple great confessional poems by deeply expressing thoughts and feelings that many people would not like to publicly share. Sylvia Plath got divorced after having two children. She writes about some of her experiences as a single mother in her poem “Morning Song”. After multiple suicide attempts throughout Sylvia’s life, she committed…

  • The Confessions of Sylvia Plath

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    floree24

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    I decided to look into Sylvia Plath’s poetry. I chose “Daddy,” “Lady Lazarus,” and “Morning Song.”  First, I looked at the poem, “Daddy”. This poem explores Plath’s loss of a father figure and how she has dealt with that throughout her life.  “I was ten when they buried you” (Plath, line 58). The topic of…

  • Plath and Pain

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    lorimj18

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    Sylvia Plath is a renowned author from the confessional poetics era. She wrote real poems about strong topics that most people were too afraid to discuss openly. She wrote about hard topics like mental illness, war, and forced marriage. The thing Plath did so well was speak truth through these topics, but she did it…

  • Sylvia Plaths Confessional Poetry

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    sprymm18

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    Sylvia Plath is one of the most famous confessional poets of the 20th century. Plath’s poems are known for being personal, emotional, and raw about her feelings and struggles. Poems like Morning Song, Daddy, and Lady Lazarus are just a few examples of her writing where she expresses her personal thoughts and experiences about motherhood,…