The Effects of Death, Personal Experience and the Supernatural Element

These five poems by Sylvia Plath are all connected by the theme of death, self-loathing, and by the movement of historical, even mythological, concepts. Sylvia Plath uses very powerfully supercharged imagery of controversial and emotional melodic themes in order to best fall upon her own life. Most of the poems reflect her own personal life, including the events that she has experienced and, more appropriately, the relationships and emotions that she has felt. Every single one 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 metrical composition 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 self-destructive pronenesss. In each of her poems she evoke s the images of historical 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 patronise or held down by some sort of feeling, either of desire for a loved one, escape 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, Daddy and Balloons are all written in five-line-stanzas. While The Colossus has no particularly obvious rhyme pattern, it does admit a steady rhythm. Daddy does have a rhyme proposal focusing on the sound U it is present in all(prenominal) stanza except for one. Balloons does not have a set rhyme scheme, provided it does have a sort of flow to it,... ...s. Introduction to face Literature. Comp. Trent University discussion section of English. Toronto Canadian Scholars, 2010. Print. (Plath 57) Plath, Sylvia. Cut. Introduction to English Literature. Comp. Trent University 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. Lady 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.