In the last stanza, she claimed that “the message of the Yew tree is blackness-blackness and silence.”, showing that the nature has rejected her and that the establishment failed. Slyvia Plath could not even communicate with the substitute of being- nature. Slyvia Plath also established a connection with the moon as her mother. However, her mum’s relation with her is seen to be very superficial and distant. From “ The moon is no door”, we know that her mum is not someone whom she can escape to from her problems, not someone whom she can rely on.
This poem expresses the pain and sorrow of a battle that someone is fighting against themselves. Someone who is tore between her aging self and her youth. The woman knows that she is no longer a child but she’s having a hard time letting that part of her go because she feels that her youth is the only good thing about her. “Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon,” indicates that the woman turns to those who only throw lies at her, the lies that she wants to hear. Candles and the moon don’t swallow the image of what stands before them yet they reflect off a brightness, a lying goodness.
The main points in Professor Smith's essay are that the female characters are there only to reflect the male characters, and that the Frankenstein family has a weird style of living, which she describes as a "bookkeeping mentality" (Smith 279). Smith begins her essay by looking at the historical factors that may have contributed to this seemingly sexist book. Shelley, writing in the first half of the 19th Century, was in a period in which a woman "was conditioned to think she needed a man's help" (Smith 275). In the novel itself, no women speak directly. The book has three basic narrators: Robert Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and Frankenstein's monster.
In this poem Yeats presents his thoughts of a troubled relationship through the effects of his language, Imagery and verse form. Firstly, ‘The cat’ (Black Minnaloushe) is known to be representing Yeats. It is made obvious that Yeats is unhappy with the fact that he never took enough action in pursuing his love for Maud, and therefore believed in him being predicable and sedentary. ‘The moon’ represents Maud which in literature, the moon is a traditional symbol/metaphor for a woman. This is linked to the waxing and waning of the moon having been associated with the menstrual cycle.
No, you can’t go to church because you have no decent clothes. People will talk about you,” shows a connection between Zindel’s mother and Beatrice, the mother in the play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (Zindel ix). In Marigolds…Revisited, Zindel says, “I used whole chunks of my mother to create the character Beatrice,” telling us what exactly they had in common (Zindel vi). Growing up, his mother had a few of the same issues as Beatrice. His mother was a single parent, left by her husband, who had kids to take care of in a society that looked down on families like theirs.
The poem “Waiting for Icarus”, by Muriel Rukeyser, is written from the point of view of a woman that was in love with Icarus, and mourns his death. This is an interesting point of view on the myth because nothing was really known of a woman in Icarus’ life, and this somehow makes his death all the more tragic. When the poem begins, it is not yet known who the narrator is, which adds a sense of mystery to the poem. It begins with a list of everything Icarus had said to this person, promises they made, things they would do together, and things they have done together. The repetition of “He said” before every sentence shows that this was something the narrator had been thinking about for a while and kept repeating inside her head.
Nothing – how can it be for science anything but a horror and a phantasm? If science is right, then one thing stands firm: science wishes to know nothing of nothing…” (173) This statement reflects the views of Nietzsche, a philosopher who argued that atheism is an intellectual triumph over Christianity. Signifying Hulga’s atheism, supported by the fact she will not let her mother keep a “family Bible in the parlor” (174) thus, she has no reason to be polite. In reference to a superficial remark made by her mother she hollers, "We are not our own light” (172) showing; she believes there is no purpose in life. Mrs. Hopewell, confident that Hulga would have been better without a worthless “Ph.D.
This host’s life is similar to that of writer Emily Dickinson, in that they both are isolated poets who express darkness and death in a lot of their work. The poem that influences Helen the most mirrors a poem of Dickinson‘s, “A Slant of Light,” explaining the book’s title. Helen hopes she is inspiring her host with whispers of encouragement and ideas, thinking maybe that is her purpose for being here. But when the lonely poet
Despite communicating only sporadically between 1959 and Plath's suicide, both women were definitively influenced by their brief friendship, showing in their respective works. I think personal feelings about things like death, trauma, suicide and relationships began to be dealt with in poems would be very difficult to write about. It really made me think as I read the poems the two women had written and to know how they both choice to end their lives. I know that my life is not perfect, and I get upset with others from time to time but I also know that God only give me as much as I can handle at a
“Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced, which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the degree of validity that her memories of a past lover hold. The beginning stanza contains the two central ideas of the poem: perception and instability. The poem is a villanelle in iambic pentameter and these concepts are presented through the poem’s two refrains. The first refrain, “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead”, both contrasts and shares parallel structure with the second line, “I lift my lids and all is born again” (1, 2).