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How does Plath's use of extended metaphors and other literary features effect the reader's response to her poetry?
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- Words:
- 2009
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- Fri Feb 13 2004
... How does Plath's use of extended metaphors and other literary features effect the reader's response to her poetry? In this essay I will describe the literary techniques and the use of language used by Sylvia Plath in three of her poems Tulips, Mushrooms and Mirror. These poems are all extended metaphors for vanity and self-image, the stress of everyday life and the family and a metaphor for strength without violence. This technique of extended metaphors is a common literary tradition also used by other poets such as John Donne in "The Flea" and Emily Dickinson in "Funeral" and "Daffodils". Tulips is a calm peaceful poem written by Plath representing her experience when she was in hospital having an appendectomy operation. The overall message of the poem is that she prefers life in the hospital to her life as it allows her to shed her responsibility, it is peaceful and calm and
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