Summary:
Discusses the poetry of American Sylvia Plath. Analyzes the conflict between her mental illness and her poetic genius. Explores her persuasive ability.
How can a person with a mental illness be so mad, but a the same be a poetic genius". A lot of us see a person with a mental illness as dumb, retarded, and a level different from where a 'normal human stands'. The quote 'Know me before you judge me' was sadly never applied to Slyvia Plath. She was however discriminated against because of her mental illness. What fails to be noticed is that out of a mentall illness came a method of genius that wrote poems, such as 'Wuthering Heights', 'Facelift'and the highly acclaimed 'Daddy'.
Slyvia Plath's poem 'Wuthering Heights' develops persuasion by her metaphor, similies and personification that turn into visiual images. 'As limpids as solitudes', which stresses the main issue of Slyvia Plath being isolated while water passes drop by drop though her fingers, 'The sky leans on me', stands for the pressure on Slyvia Plath by mankind because of her unusual character, so together they lean on one another to blend their different characters and last but not least 'The grass is beating it's head distractedly', which is seen as the negative impact on her environment.
We also see Slyvia Plath, not only mad, but very persuasive.We feel persuaded by her visual vivid images but we also have a relationship with Slyvia Plath because we trust her.
Her inner beauty of words create open poetry, which never limits our opinions of what we think about poetry. Poery in her eyes is not only about the positive things in life, but about the trials she goes though by her cruel society as a mad woman, what brings her to life,'death',amd family members that she love but loses by other things. We trust Slyvia because she never hesitates to open up to us about her everyday life. From her feelings about her father, to her feelings about nature, people and dreams that are written in full explanation. Together these aspects are turned into a good friendship that motivates us to believe every word, line and stanza she writes.
Never underestimate a person even if they are made because you will be amazed by the staggering genius within who could one day win our trust, a trust that would turn her poems into a great success. Her illness was what made her so real as a person and just shows that 'You should never jugde a book by it's cover'. Things can also affect us whether it is mentally, Spiritually or even socially. This just shows that even a mentally unbalanced person can write, and write words that would forever hold the world in awe of her.
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