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Barren Woman By Sylvia Plath
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Thesis
Sylvia Plath conveys her emotional depression about the miscarriage of her unborn child through the literary devices used in her poem "Barren Woman."
Works Cited
Barren Woman
Where?
. "Sylvia Plath." Poets.org. Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 24 Sep 2012. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11>.
Tone
Allusion
Who?
. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC., n.d. Web. 24 Sep 2012. <www.dicitonary.com>.
Irony
Theme
Griffin, Marie. "Sylvia Plath - Poet, Author." About.com Bipolar Disorder. About.com, 10 Oct 2011. Web. 24 Sep 2012. <http://bipolar.about.com/cs/celebs/a/sylviaplath.htm>.
Literary Devices
Understanding the Poem
Plath, Sylvia. The Bell Jar. 1981. London: 1963. Print.
When?
Personification
Setting
Simile
What Happens?
Barren Woman
By: Sylvia Plath
Empty, I echo to the least footfall,
Museum without statues, grand with pillars, porticoes, rotundas.
In my courtyard a fountain leaps and sinks back into itself,
Nun-hearted and blind to the world. Marble lillies
Exhale their pallor like scent.
I imagine myself with a great public,
Mother of a white Nike and several bald-eyed Apollos.
Instead, the dead injure me with attentions, and nothing can happen.
The moon lays a hand on my forehead,
Blank-faced and mum as a nurse.
Sylvia Plath
Barren Woman
By: Sylvia Plath
History
Born October 27, 1932
Died February 11, 1963
Married to poet Ted Hughes
Suffered from severe depression and mental illness