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Sylvia Plath Bell Jar
374 wordsBefore the module began I had a fixed idea of what madness was. I had underestimated the complexity of the portrayal of madness and as a result of this, I was surprised by the range of texts that we explored from that particular perspective. Reading Sylvia Plath s, The Bell Jar seemed to me initially, an easy read. However, after discussing the text in the seminar with relation to the language diagram of paradigmatic and syntagmatic axis, I re read Plath and found it more and more complex. On my...
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Sylvia Plath Quot Quot
4,116 words. On " Ariel" Jon Rosenblatpoem like " Ariel" possesses power and importance to the degree to which the horseback ride Plath once took becomes something morea ride into the eye of the sun, a journey to death, a stripping of personality and selfhood. To treat " Ariel" as a confessional poem is to suggest that its actual importance lies in the horse- ride taken by its author, in the authors psychological problems, or in its position within the biographical development...
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