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Compare and contrast Sylvia Plath 'Blackberrying', Sylvia Plath 'Mirror' and Elizabeth Jennings 'My Grandmother' using the theme loneliness and depression
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... Compare and contrast Sylvia Plath 'Blackberrying', Sylvia Plath 'Mirror' and Elizabeth Jennings 'My Grandmother' using the theme loneliness and depression I have chosen two poems by Sylvia Plath called 'Blackberrying' and 'Mirror'. Plath was a manic depressive most of her life, she was married to Ted Hughes who later became poet laureate, but despite this marriage she claimed never to feel truly loved nor that she could give all her love to one person. She committed suicide at the age of 30 leaving two children and her husband so bereaved he did not write poetry for 3 years after her death. The other poem I have chosen is called 'My grandmother' by Elizabeth Jennings, she also suffered a mental breakdown at the age of 40 after the recovery from a serious illness. Like Plath the years of asperity in her life were enhanced in her poems and the comparisons between













