The Effects of Death, Personal Experience and the Supernatural Element

These five poems by Sylvia Plath are all(a) attached by the theme of death, self-loathing, and by the front of historic, even mythological, concepts. Sylvia Plath uses very powerfully charged imagery of controversial and turned on(p) topics in order to best describe her avouch life. Most of the poems think over her profess personalized life, including the events that she has experienced and, more appropriately, the relationships and emotions that she has felt. Every single iodine of these five poems uses the word dead and the topic of death itself is prevalent in some manner. Of particular interest is the presence of her relationship with her deceased father, and her own reluctance to let go of his memory. Plaths poetry reflects her own self-loathing and disregard for her own existence. Her poems often mention her own attempts at suicide, in addition to her personal experiences with trying to get rid of her suicidal desires. In each of her poems she evokes the images of hist orical and mythical creatures and concepts linked with the religious and the supernatural. In addition, her poems can be connected by the idea of being held back or held down by some shield of feeling, either of desire for a loved one, lack from mortal existence or of a fantasy world. . The five poems are all relatively similar in structure, as they are all done with stanzas of continuous set lengths in each poem. The Colossus, dada and Balloons are all written in five-line-stanzas. While The Colossus has no particularly obvious rhyme pattern, it does maintain a steady rhythm. pop music does go through a rhyme scheme focusing on the operate U it is present in every stanza except for one. Balloons does not have a set rhyme scheme, but it does have a sort of flow to it,... ...s. Introduction to slope Literature. Comp. Trent University incision of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars, 2010. Print. (Plath 57) Plath, Sylvia. Cut. Introduction to English Literature. Comp. Trent Uni versity Department of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars, 2010. Print. Plath, Sylvia. Daddy. Introduction to English Literature. Comp. Trent University Department of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars, 2010. Print. Plath, Sylvia. gentlewoman Lazarus. Introduction to English Literature. Comp. Trent University Department of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars, 2010. Print. (Plath 55-57) Plath, Sylvia. The Colossus. Introduction to English Literature. Comp. Trent University Department of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars Press Inc., 2010. Print.Websters English Dictionary. Canadian. Toronto Strathearn Books Limited, 2006. Print.