In Maya Angelou’s life she has defied incredible odds. Her perseverance through tough times seeps through in all of her poetry. Maya was raped when she was 8, similarly to the book Speak we read sophomore year the tragedy makes her totally withdraw from society. Finally one of her grade school teachers encouraged Maya to come out of her shell. In her young adult years she moved to San Francisco and had a variety of jobs, many of which broke the color barrier.
The word “echoes” can be interpreted as her words written in her poems: once written and published, everyone can view them so they must be perfect. In the second stanza, the mood changes, becoming much quieter as Plath’s choice of metaphors become stronger, emphasising the struggle of her writing. Immediately, “the sap” which is the first line, links to the wood-chopping of the previous stanza. However personification is used to show that the sap “wells like tears”, this emphasises the emotional strain that Plath goes through when writing her poetry. “Sap” is a metaphor for the words, and the extraction of them like tears highlights the slow, emotional process of Plath’s
The neglect from her brother and low self-esteem led to Horney’s depression which would affect her for the rest of her life. In 1904 Horney’s stepmother divorced her father and left him to raise Horney and Brendlt by himself. “In 1906, Horney entered medical school against her parent's wishes. At medical school, she met Oscar Horney and married him in 1909. In 1910, she gave birth to Brigitte, the first of three daughters.
Marilyn believed that Bobby would leave his wife for her, and when she found out it was a lie, she became extremely depressed. Marilyn threatened to tell the world about her affairs and it is said that the Kennedys paid her more than one million dollars to keep her quiet (Hosenball) (FBI). Marilyn was extremely depressed and was regularly seeing a psychiatrist. On her last visit to Dr. Greenson, her psychiatrist, she was prescribed sixty seconal tablets (FBI). Seconal is a barbiturate to help relieve anxiety and treat insomnia and the large prescription was unusual because she saw Greenson
Some people call her a surrealist although, she says that what she paints is her own reality. At a young age, she married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The turbulent, passionate relationship survived infidelities, the pressures of careers, divorce, remarriage, Frida’s lesbian affairs, her poor health and her sterility. Frida once said, “I suffered two grave accidents in my life…One in a bus and the other was Diego” (Kahlo 30). When Diego started to work on a mural, in the Rockefeller Center in New York, Frida came along with him, and after more than three years in America Frida wanted desperately to return to her native Mexico.
Unfortunately, most of those "life events" were tragic and unpleasant events that brought much pain to her life. In the article, Neurological Deficits in the Life and Works of Frida Kahlo, Valmantas Budrys tells readers that “it is difficult to find an artist whose life and works were more deeply affected by illness than Frida Kahlo’s” (Budrys 1). Often when Frida was upset, she would paint a self-portrait to express her emotions at the time. Most of Frida's self-portraits look like just another self-portrait. However, within her paintings are clues that reveal her inner emotions and thoughts at the time the painting was executed.
Frida Kahlo was born in 1907. Kahlo is a Mexican painter , famous and popular internationally for her outstanding artwork. Kahlo experienced a tragic accident in 1925 in which she suffered serious injuries that left her in hospital or bedridden for months at a time. This led her to turn herself away from medicine studies. Bored with nothing to do Kahlo taught herself to paint and it occupied her whist she was bedridden after the accident.
The life changing accident occurred on September 17th 1925, Frida and her friend Alex was involved in a severe bus crash, and Frida was damaged very severely. A metal rod had made a very deep wound in her abdominal, and her third and fourth lumbar vertebrae were fractured. Frida had received many more wounds, and she ended up trapped in a body cast for months. While Frida was confined to her bed, her mother brought her a small lap easel, and Frida started to paint. She had studied art before, at the National Preparatory School, where she had met Diego Rivera when he was painting the Creation mural, but Frida had never worked on paintings before.
Although Anja Spiegelman, Vladek's late wife and Art's mother, survived Auschwitz and moved to America, she never emotionally escaped the terror of the Holocaust. Art reveals her unfortunate fate during the prologue of Maus on page 13 when he is describing his father's appearance. “He had aged a lot since I saw him last. My mother’s suicide and his two heart attacks had taken their toll” (Speigelman 13). Having this fact introduced at the very beginning of the book sets the eerie mood of false hope that the Holocaust entails – it shows us that Anja left Auschwitz physically alive, but emotionally broken.
Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath is well known for writing off of life experiences. Many of her poems were written in away so that something related to her. Themes used throughout her poetry had a lot to do with women's place in American culture which she would somehow relate to her life. Some of her poems include “Daddy”, “The Dead”, April 18” and “The Bell Jar.” In 1982, Sylvia Plath won the Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for The Collected Poems. Plath also won a few other awards and prizes such as a scholarship for Cambridge University, first place in the Boston Globe contest, top prize in Atlantic Monthly Scholastic contest, and first place in the Mademoiselle Fiction Contest.