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Thank you We sneak in contemporary literature Sylvia plath Eyelash

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shmoop sylvia plath is in some ways best known for

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ending her own life But even before that her poetry

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is known for taking up incredibly dark themes and that's

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an incredible thing for a woman to be able to

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do to right these very serious poems So she's very

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well known for daddy and that's a poem in which

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she works through her relationship with her father but also

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with her husband also with other men that she's known

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in her life Daddy is also about nazis and vampires

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and orange and all sorts of crazy stuff like there's

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a lot in any given plath poem Another really representative

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poem is aerial which is about platz experience riding her

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horse named ariel and losing control So that's a poem

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about terror on what it feels like to suddenly be

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completely out of control which is another really characteristic feeling

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of contemporary american life of knowing But the world is

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really fast and there are lots of social forces and

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natural forces that are not in your control So it's

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as though you're on a horse too moving really fast

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And you lost control of the reins What is daddy

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about How does sylvia plath loss of control and aerial 00:01:31.152 --> [endTime] relate to contemporary american concerns

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