The Real Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was a gifted but troubled poet known for disturbing style of her work. Plath wrote the poem, “Daddy,” stanzas of emotional, psychological and historical thoughts. The poem was filled with regret and over time was analyzed and critiqued differently. The best critique, “From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” was written by Mary Lynn Broe and emphasizes the most adequate, textual evidence of the poem, “Daddy.” Broe begins her critique by justifying that Plath creates a mock poetic exorcism of the events that happened throughout her life. Broe’s main claim points out Plath’s stupidity, progress and comedy relief of her famous poem, “Daddy.” Broe puts forth supportive, textual evidence that persuades the audience of this claim.
“Maud: A monodrama” is a complex exploration of love, death and society, conveyed through an erratic narrative with a near-schizophrenic speaker who laments the death of his lover, Maud. Received badly by most contemporary critics, the idea of “Maud” being both “mad” and “mud” shall be examined in this essay and the reasons why certain critics may have regarded it in such a way. The speaker’s madness, delusion and cynicism pervade the poem. The neurotic, frantic and exasperated speaker may have led to certain critics regarding the poem as “Mad”. In the first stanza, the environment in which the speaker’s father committed suicide is personified as having “lips” that are “dabbled with blood-red heath” and “red-ribb’d ledges”.
The Handling of Grief in Hamlet An ever present feeling in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is grief. Brought about by many different character’s deaths, grief is an emotion that turns toxic to the characters who struggle with it the most in Hamlet. According to dictionary.com, grief is defined as keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret. With the untimely deaths of people close to the hearts of the play’s main characters, as readers we observe how they deal with grief in their own way. The play’s main protagonist Hamlet lets his grief over his father’s murder fuel his thirst for revenge, Ophelia lets the grief over the murder of her father Polonius drive her to apparent suicide, and Ophelia’s brother Laertes is pushed to conspire with Claudius to kill Hamlet as a result of his grief.
The Use of Women as a Tool to Untie Hamlet In the play, Hamlet, William Shakespeare crafts a tragedy centralized around the main character, Prince Hamlet and his negative perception of the women in his life. One main point of Shakespeare’s piece is to highlight how a female’s weakness ultimately shapes the decisions of their male counterparts. He does so by skillfully using the nature of a woman as a compelling force that leads to Hamlet’s destruction. Prince Hamlet struggles with accepting the harsh reality that his mother has remarried to her late husband’s brother. This conflict within Hamlet is further expounded by the possibility that his father was murdered by his uncle, King Cladius.
Siti Aisah The Ambiguity in Anne Sexton’s Poems and Her Writing Technique especially in ‘Us’ Anne Sexton is a poet and playwright. She is famous for his poetry that plays some of his personal life. She also has the same tragic fate as Sylvia Plath. Anne Sexton's poetry tells stories that are immensely significant to the mid-Twentieth-century artistic and psychic life. Sexton understood her culture's malaise through her own, and her skill enabled her to deploy metaphorical structures at once synthetic and analytic.
Shakespeare uses Hamlet`s hatred towards his mother to establish the betrayal Hamlet is feeling, and to acknowledge the fractured state of Hamlet`s family due to Gertrude`s actions and decisions. Not only did Gertrude betray her own son by marrying Claudius but she also betrayed her former husband, Elder Hamlet. Alone, Hamlet talks to the ghost of Elder Hamlet who expresses his disappointment in Gertrude, calling her an “adulterate beast” (1.5.42), meaning she has
Some poems are shown from a male perspective, and some aren’t. “Anne Hathaway” is not shown from the male perspective but it in fact shown from the perspective of how she felt as a person when she was with William Shakespeare, this differs this poem from the rest of the poems as most are either a mockery of the love shared between a couple, and the others are about how the husbands didn’t compromise well enough – leading to change and unrequited love. An example of a poem not being the key/highlight of the collection is “Mrs Darwin”. This poem can be interpreted in however way possible – with the most obvious interpretation being a poem about the mockery of Darwin by Mrs Darwin. It doesn’t sum up the love Anne Hathaway showed in the poem that is reflected in all other poems, but just the humour of the relation Darwin had with his wife.
The couple deals with feelings of grief, frustration and anger while trying to cope with the death of their child. Robert Frost wrote the poem “Home Burial” after he and his wife suffered the tragic loss of their son. Through Frost's experience he shows that men and women have different ways of grieving. “Home Burial” illustrates the emotions people feel after such a loss, and how they face those emotions. Throughout “Home Burial” Frost also illustrates the conflict of a married couple’s life and the struggle with grief and with the strain it puts on their marriage.
In this soliloquy, the audience sees his depression and grief over the death of his father coupled with his incredulity at the ‘most wicked speed’ with which his mother has remarried. Here, Shakespeare is already showing the audience what is going on in Hamlet’s mind. He is already preoccupied with grief and suicide: HAMLET: ‘O that this too too sullied flesh would melt… Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ’gainst self-slaughter.’ Language like ‘O God’ and ‘Heaven and earth, must I remember?’ give an impression of misery and despair. This is effective in showing exactly the onset of Hamlet’s state of mind. Shakespeare is suggesting that Hamlet’s is already a troubled mind, thus the audience is already aware of the burdens Hamlet suffers.
So, their lives are wasted and, overall, the lives of their loved ones at home are also ruined. When reading this the reader experiences some distraught experiences, the reader sees the horrors of war and how unfortunate it is to die in war. Owen fought in World War I and wrote this poem while in a hospital recovering from shell shock. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” solemnly discusses death in war and shows how those who die in war do not receive the normal ceremonies that are used to honour the dead. Owen was able to express how he felt about those who passed away while fighting in war, and he successfully communicates a moving message to his readers in the poem.