Red Dress" In the passionate poem, by Kim Addonizio she studies the theme of desire, particularly a women's desire, and uses a red dress as a metaphor to make her point. The poem is direct to the point stating in the very first line "I want a red dress" (line 1). This simple statement serves to fix the red dress right at the front of a reader's mind. This is what the poem is about, Kim Addonizio is telling us, the image is important. Now we see the passion beneath Addonizio's words.
Despite the collection of poems being published under the guidance of her husband and poet Ted Hughes, Plath had outlined an arrangement prior to her death which is where the main debate regarding the authoritative edition of Ariel arises. The two versions, whilst containing a similar selection of poems in a similar order, result in different expressive functions. Perloff argued that “Plath’s arrangement emphasizes, not death, but struggle and revenge, the outrage that follows the recognition that the beloved is also the betrayer, that the shrine at which one worships is also the tomb”[1] whereas Hughes’ Ariel arrangement has been seen as his attempt to make the text less personally aggressive to himself[2] by his critics and simply as protective of those the more lacerating poems were aimed at as well as including stronger poems[3] by his supporters. The difference in reactions to the two versions of Ariel suggests that each version’s authorial intention differs despite supposedly being the same text.
Fitzgerald describes Gatsby as "overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves." But Gatsby confuses "youth and mystery" with history; he thinks a single glorious month of love with Daisy can compete with the years and experiences she has shared with Tom. Just as "new money" is money without social connection, Gatsby's connection to Daisy exists outside of history. Nick's fear of the future foreshadows the economic crisis that pushed the country into depression and ended the Roaring Twenties in 1929. The day Gatsby and Tom argue at the Plaza Hotel, Nick suddenly realizes that it's his 30th birthday.
All of these texts express the complexity of truth through the differing representations of Hughes and Plath’s turbulent relationship. Hughes’ ‘Birthday Letters’ is a series of poems addressed to Plath that convey his subjective truth of the nature of their relationship and subsequent marriage. The anthology is written with hindsight and knowledge, and includes questioning; as Hughes is unsure of his memories. ‘Fulbright Scholars’ in particular portrays a tone of uncertainty through the use of rhetorical questions, authorial answers, and the repetition of ‘or’. ‘Where was it, in the Strand?’, ‘Or arrived.
This play was published in 1949 by a famous and well known author named Arthur Miller. The play was written after the Wall Street crash had struck in America when the country allowed immigrants to come into the country to work, stressing to them that anyone could live the American Dream if they worked hard enough regardless of social class and upbringing. The storyline features Willy Loman, an average individual who attempts to hide his failures behind a delusion and a dream as he strives to be a “Success” for himself and his sons. Bookends which is a poem written by Tony Harrison is about segregation from his mother who has sadly passed away but also separation from his father as his father never accepted to what Tony Harrison was doing with his life which was studying and studying. “Books, books, books” is a famous quote used by Tony Harrison to describe why the “Alienation” took place between him and his father.
Jim was a poet in essence, and started off his career with literature and writing poetry, then soon turned those poems into lyrics for songs that would be analyzed and interpreted in many ways still to this day. I feel that the basis for this song The End is about Jim’s perception of the world and the fascination with the realm of the unconscious. Some speculate that the song was written about his breaking up with one of his girlfriends in college, but over time the song developed much more meaning than that, and Jim himself wished for this song to be interpreted into whatever the listener wishes. After many changes to the lyrics and Jim’s variations of the song during performances, the lyrics took on a deeper more psychological meaning and offered his approach to views on life, and death. The most popular verses of the song are about Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex.
There are quite a few well tested themes present themselves throughout Nabokov’s ‘Spring In Fialta’, recapturing the past, doubles, amorous yearning, possessiveness, Russia and the women, exile and lack of security. To tell us of this, he uses several narrative devices, absence of a plot, scrambled chronology and an unreliable narrator. First we are introduced to Victor, A businessman who is on a trip to Fialta, away from his wife and children. Throughout Victors story he recounts the events of a previous visit to Fialta, years ago where he first meets Nina, a woman with whom he has been in love ever since. He recalls they’re first meeting over and over again and the spontaneous meetings that follow.
A comparison of Hughes’ poetry considered with the representation of both poets in Jeffs’ film provides readers with conflicting perspectives on Plath’s personality and state of mind as well as on her marriage to Hughes and ultimate suicide in 1963. The poetry collection Birthday Letters was created by Ted Hughes as a personal contemplation of his relationship with Sylvia Plath. It consists of 88 poems, of which all but two are addressed to Plath, and presents his perspective in what was publicly viewed as a tumultuous relationship. In 1998, he described his purpose in writing the collection to ABC Book Talk as “A gathering of occasions in which I tried to open a direct, private, inner contact with my first wife.” The collection explores selected memories and how they affect the representation of an event, personality or situation. For example, Fulbright Scholars is a poem in which Hughes recalls the first time he may have seen Plath, and reveals how his mind worked as a twenty-five year old man.
All these texts explore the concept of one person’s ‘truth’ in relation to another’s. The collection of poems constituting Birthday letters was created by Ted Hughes over a twenty plus year period following the suicide of his early wife Sylvia Plath. The single, internal perspective offered by Hughes’ poetry was always brand to be contentious. Ted Hughes poem, ‘The Shot’, gives his detailed perspective on Plath’s personality and her life in general. Hughes imposes the idea that Sylvia’s father was responsible for her instability through use of personification, “when his death touched the trigger.” Hughes talks of how Plath’s paranoid state caused destruction to the people she loved and whom loved her.
Critical Essay My Last Duchess – Ferrara Robert Browning has created a perfect blend of form and content in his poem, ‘My Last Duchess’. The poetic techniques used allowed me, as the reader, to become involved in this poem and also contribute to an engaging read. Through using key techniques Browning brought to me a deeper appreciation of this poem, and in this essay I will study these further. The poem concerns the character, the Duke of Ferrara who is giving a tour of his manner to an envoy, who has been sent to negotiate a dowry for the marriage of his master’s, the count’s, daughter to the Duke. He stops at a painting of his late wife, his ‘last Duchess’ and begins a speech of which he is recanting his thoughts of her.