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  • Essay / Biography of Sylvia Plath - 1440

    Critical AnalysisSylvia Plath, a great American author, focuses primarily on real-life experiences. Plath's poetry displays feelings and emotions. Plath had the ability to turn everyday events into poems or journal entries. Plath had a passion for poetry and her work was appreciated. She drew inspiration from novelists and her own skills. His poetry was also very important to readers and critics. Sylvia Plath's work shows change throughout one's life, relates to feelings and emotions, and focuses on everyday experiences. Plath's difficulties with narrative prose contrast between her romantic dreams and her character. Plath's passion for classic novelists and her own talent made her realize that proper narrative prose was densely constructed (Hughes 1). Plath’s poetry undergoes constant change (Smith 2). The bee was an often used motif (Smith 3). Jerome Mazzaro considers Plath's achievements in The Bell Jar to be less sexist. Mazzaro also believes that Plath's novel is a statement of mid-century fascination ("The Importance..." 2). Marilyn Yalom wrote in Motherhood, Morality, and the Literature of Madness that Plath's novel about her depression and recovery, The Bell Jar, is a pre-feminist revelation of the effects of sexist culture. Yalom's critical point of view developed from that of feminist and psychoanalytic criticism of the 1980s (“The Importance…” 1). Plath's lyricism ranges from simple but effective to a Hopkinsian ode for her beloved (Magill 2223). His best ability was turning his daily experiences into journal entries (Magill 2225). Plath's poems of Ariel reflect her fury and sullenness towards life (Draper 2734).Letter's Home: Correspondence, 1951-1963 (1975) shows Plath's response to change in her adult life..... . middle of paper... ...the language of war. One of his last poems shows how this vision restricts and liberates his expression (Magill 2225). Some of Plath's poems, even though the personal voice is fading, are still very personal (Magill 2226). Plath's symbolism comes from an arrangement of doom. The purpose of Plath's poems is to show a deeper pattern (Hughes 5). Plath's story, The Bell Jar, has remained important to most readers ("The Importance..." 2). Plath believes that relationships are necessary, but destructive (Smith 6). Plath is a very personal poet. She also uses symbolism in the majority of her poetry and prose. Plath writes based on everyday events in her life. Most of his work actually consists of a diary without punctuation. Plath draws most of her inspiration from her daily life. She loved writing about things that happened every day.