Ms. Thornborrow4thHourComposition

d - distance from Earth in light years (ly).

100,000 light years in diameter and 3,000 light years in width.

The article discusses the role of father figures in the poetry of poet Sylvia Plath. The author suggests Plath's father,

where Plath uses suicidal theme as a process of reunion with his father and the beach which arouses in her that suicidal desire.

Investigates the poetry of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Influence on each other's poetic approach; Analysis of the ways in which Plath looted Hughes' poetic corpus; Interpretation of Hughes' poem entitled "Phaetons."

Basic Search Advanced Search Search History

The present article aims to highlight one of the major characteristics of confessional poetry - that of exposure of intimate life and feelings through poetry. The interest in Sylvia Plath's poems is closely linked to that of her personal life, her marriage to Ted Hughes being one of them.

Examines "Birthday Letters," the thirty-third poem in Ted Hughes' "The Literary Life" to shed light on the relationships among himself and fellow authors Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath. Missing letter described in the poem which complicates previous accounts of the fate of Plath's missing journals; Examination of the letter from Moore to Plath and other previously unpublished letters by Moore which reveal fault lines in Hughes' account and in the gendered politics of mid-twentieth-century Anglo-American poetry.

Designation of Sylvia Plath as

Discusses Sylvia Plath's contribution to the development of the elegy in the twentieth century. Series of poems mourning her father's death; Aggression of the mourner over death; Poems from consolatory mourning to the violent, contradictory, and protracted work of melancholia.

"The Scarlet Letter," and with short stories including "Rappaccini's Daughter." The poem's bitter evocation of a dysfunctional, violent, but nevertheless deeply seductive relation- ship between daughter, father-figure, and husband.

The male muse in the psychic territory Adrienne Rich called in 1971 'The Man' represents sexualized death and phallic mourning, a concept of masculinity marked by the legacy of the 20th century's two world wars.