Roethke died in 1963 of a heart attack in Bainbridge Island, Washington. Works Cited: “Biography of Theodore Roethke.” Poem Hunter. Web. 1 March 2013. http://www.poemhunter.com/theodore-roethke/biography/ McRoberts, Patrick. “Roethke, Theodore (1908-1963).” HistoryLink.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Autor: Styron, William Student Name: Yahaira Cabrera Barreto Course: English Foundations EN001-48 102 Instructor: Ms. Joan Zaun Due Date: April 1, 2015 Information about the author William Styron | Author (1925–2006) Novelist William Styron won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner and wrote Sophie’s Choice, the basis of an Academy Award-winning film. William Styron was born on June 11, 1925, in Newport News, Virginia. He published his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness, in 1952. In 1968 he won a Pulitzer Prize for The Confessions of Nat Turner. In 1979 he published Sophie’s Choice, which was made into a film in 1982 and an opera in 2002.
Created for the festival of Dionysus in 431 BC, Medea is a controversial study of impassioned love turned into furious hatred. It examines the liability of various characters for the final tragedy of the play, whence Medea butchers her two innocent children. It also disregards the concept of ‘heroes’ common to dramas in Euripides time. The clash of two contrasting characters — one, a barbarian woman with extreme emotional reactions, and her husband, a vain man of civilisation who lacks empathy — allows Euripides to explore whether it is the heart or the head that drives humans to commit inhumane acts. Medea’s extreme emotional attachments can only be expressed through extreme measures.
Hughes uses his poem, The Minotaur, to try to manipulate the audience to see a different view of their marriage, and to make people feel sympathetic towards him. Hughes portrays his wife Sylvia Plath as violent, irrational, and out of control. This is shown in the way he shows her, in lines such as “The mahogany table-top you smashed”. The onomatopoeia of “smashed” further emphasises her violent personality. Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family.
Gwen is also in a very irrational nation as she came from a poor and always is stressed. Her bad temper has led her to her own distinctive world. In the play, Away, Gwen is very stereotyping against Tom and had called him ‘Motorbikes, Tattoos, Drinks. A sad dirty life’ .She calls him this because he is from a very country family but Meg only thinks of Tom as a friend and due to Gwen’s negative opinion towards Tom creates a barrier between the mother and daughter. During Act I, Scene 2, Gwen asks for a ‘Bex’ which is a medicine like panadol and the Bex symbolises her domestic world by only more wealthy people are able to use Bex.
These show some of her best diaristic documents, with titles like Poor Love, From the Week of Hell '94, and Ripped Up. Fuck You Eddy, There Must Be Something Terribly Wrong With Me, and Sad Shower in New York are three created after Emin had her abortions. In her paintings, Emin has said Munch and Schiele are major influences. Her boyfriend of the time, Childish, was a large influence of her early paintings that were in expressionist styles. When Emin was in her later years of college she would often discontinue her paintings and destroy them.
The Minotaur is a particularly fierce example of Hughes’ poetic criticism against his wife Sylvia Plath. Hughes presents a very subjective view of a situation that happened in Hughes and Plath’s married life. He trivialises the situation through juxtaposing strong words like “demented” with the insignificance of “being twenty minutes late for baby minding”. Hughes uses direct quotes to present himself as a supportive and helpful mentor and takes credit for her creative pursuits through the personification of Plath’s conscience as a goblin. His calm and supportive nature is juxtaposed through his portrayal of Plath as an unstable, explosive woman through the use of personal pronouns and strong onomatopoeia such as “you smashed” and “you swung”.
An Analysis of Two Poems “My Last Duchess” and “My Ex-Husband” are two poems that are very similar even though they come from two very different time periods. “My Last Duchess,” written by Robert Browning, is a poem of dramatic monologue by the speaker Duke Ferrera. “My Ex-Husband,” by Gabriel Spera, was written to be a modern-day copy of the poem “My Last Duchess.” It includes dramatic monologue like the original “My Last Duchess.” However, Spera modernizes the poem, making the speaker a divorced woman. The two poems show similarities and differences in characters, diction, and cultural differences. In “My Last Duchess” the characters are the speaker Duke Ferrara, and his spouse the late Duchess.
“To His Coy Mistress”: An Explication In his lyrical poem, “To His Coy Mistress,” Marvell focuses on a subject that still baffles minds today, nearly 300 years later-sex. The poem was written by Andrew Marvell, a celebrated 17th-century metaphysical poetry writer. Marvell shows a world where women are seduced. Women and men have focused on the issue of sex for centuries. The most ironic thing that the reader should notice while analyzing this poem is that even though they are in two different time settings, the same persuasions are used as an argument in Marvell’s time as well as the present.
An Adventure of “Diving into the Wreck” Adrienne Rich, according to the editors of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, is a poet who “addresses with particular power the experiences of women, experiences often omitted from history and misrepresented in literature” (1444). It is known that Rich is a political poet, and often connected her work with her feelings. In 1972 when Diving into the Wreck was written, the United States was facing many issues such as the Vietnam War, the struggle for women's rights, and the Civil Rights Movement. Rich’s personal life experiences were also a possible impact, starting with her marriage collapsing and ex-husband committing suicide shortly after. Although these political issues and personal tragedies don’t explain everything, they make evident connections in her journey to a different world.