Tag: Fall 2025
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Speaker in Poetry
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The perspective, tone, language, imagery, and many other factors affect our perception of a poem, writing, etc. The following analysis about three pieces makes this clear. Toy Harjo, “She Had Some Horses” The image of horses in this poem is totally null, as they represent a lot of other things, but never real horses. Sometimes…
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Anne Sexton’s Struggle Through Poetry
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Anne Sexton is a poet who lived during the early to mid-1900s. She is well known for her confessional poetry that has won many honors and awards. Her poetry was mainly popular during her life and has been subject to many debates. Anne’s work is deeply personal and is many times based on her own…
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Confessional Poetics – Sylvia Plath
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Confessional poetry involves turning inward, revealing difficult truths, loss, mental illness, and family trauma. Plath’s life gave her abundant raw material. Her early loss of her father, her struggles with depression and suicide, her fraught marriage, and the pressures of identity as a woman and mother all show up in vivid, sometimes metaphorical scenes in…
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Poet’s Personal Struggles
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Mementos, 1 by W.D. Snodgrass This poem was written from the poet’s own perspective. He was writing about sorting through letters and finding a picture of someone who meant a lot to him. He described this person as “Just as you stood – shy, delicate, slender. In that long gown of green lace netting and…
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The Depth of Confessional Poetry – Anne Sexton
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I have never really explored poems that cover Confessionalism in depth before, and to be quite honest, I was not fully aware of what it meant or if a poem was using it. So, when choosing an author for this assignment, I chose Anne Sexton. I have heard of her previously, and some of the…
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Shakespeare, Neruda, and the Theme of Love
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The poem I am choosing to focus on for this comparison will be “Sonnet 17” by Pablo Neruda. Contrasting it will be Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”. Both poems tell an interesting story. For Neruda, it is a heartfelt story about love and connection. For Shakespeare, he chooses to look at love from a different approach, instead…
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Sonnets of Shakespeare and Pablo Neruda
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Pablo Neruda’s “One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII” has the speaker comparing their light of their love to “the plant that doesn’t bloom, but carries the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,” (Neruda 5-6). This can be compared to Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?”, in which his love is…
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Who Was Sylvia Plath?
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Sylvia Plath was born October 27, 1932. Her first story was published in college. At first she was a teacher and then she became a full time author. She first got into confessional poetry at a poetry workshop with Robert Lowell. In 1960, she published her first collection. She continued to write many poems, however…
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The Tragic Tale of Poet Sylvia Plath
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Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath This poem by Sylvia Plath is a very vulnerable one; it reveals some deep secrets and truths about the poet that most would not be willing to share and is a classic example of Confessional poetry. In lines 34-39, Plath describes the two times she faced a near-death experience. She…
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Shakespeare & Neruda Sonnets
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In “One Hundred Love Sonnets” I noticed how the author described what they were thinking but saying objects, “As the plant that doesn’t bloom” (Neruda, 5) In the poem “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” did similar, throughout the writing the author would compare two similar objects, but make it connect and heart…