Topic > Sylvia Plath and her poetry - 1353

Two of the most famous poets of the 19th and 20th centuries are Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath respectively. These women were born almost a hundred years apart from each other, but their writing is strikingly similar, especially through the use of the speaker. In fact, in the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath writes about her father and compares him to domineering figures, such as Adolf Hitler, a teacher and a vampire; and in Emily Dickinson's poem “She treated her beautiful words like blades—“, she talks about bullies and how they affect one person's life, another bully figure. Despite being born in different centuries, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath are parallel in many ways, such as their choice of story, their choice of themes, and their choice of and as a narrator. Emily Dickinson is considered "the most original woman in America". poet” and was born on 10 December 1830 (CITATION1). Throughout her life, she spent most of her time alone at home, spending time only with herself and writing poetry. When she died at the age of fifty-five, her sister decided to publish the 1,800 poems Emily had written. Before her death, Emily had published only ten of her poems. For this reason, she was not well known before her death, unlike Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath, on the other hand, is a well-known author and poet. He also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982 (QUOTE2). Sylvia was similar to Emily Dickinson in that she was not an outgoing person. In fact, she was often depressed and eventually took her own life in 1963 (QUOTE 3). Although unlucky, Sylvia Plath had written many popular poems, such as "Daddy", short stories and a semi-autobiographical novel called "The Bell Jar". As mentioned above, Sylvia Plath's... medium of paper... ...lemmas, such as depression, sadness, domineering and domineering figures. The themes shared in each poem also have a common similarity, such as the example of numbness. The choice of speaker of each poem is also important, and they also share a similarity between the two poets. The idea that the two women wrote poems telling stories from their lives is not far-fetched, especially in the case of Sylvia Plath's “Daddy.” Of the three poems, I found “Daddy” the easiest to understand due to its complete sentences and vivid description. Furthermore, because the poets wrote as if they were speaking the poem themselves, I found that their poems were more emotional and compelling than if they were not. For this reason, I considered their poetry to be very similar as the speakers have the same emotional mindset, but the writing style of the poets themselves is different..