Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Judith Wright And Sylvia Plaths Naked Girl And Mirror
Both Judith Wright and Sylvia Plath explore different feminist views in their poetry in order to highlight the freedom that comes with the empowerment of women and the escapement from the boundaries of social expectations. Wright uses stylistic devices such as punctuation, oxymoron, metaphor, and personification to discuss the insecurities she has with her body in her poem ââ¬ËNaked Girl and Mirrorââ¬â¢. The oxymoron, ââ¬Å"I see you are lovely, hateful naked girlâ⬠, depicts the internal struggle she deals with that centres on her self-image. The world has metaphorically detached Wrightââ¬â¢s mind from her body and this encourages her to write with a more feminist view in order to remind her listeners that she has a soul and her gender is not all she is.â⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦In her poem ââ¬ËArielââ¬â¢, she describes stumbling on, ââ¬Å"heels and kneesâ⬠, and compares it to Arielââ¬â¢s transformation from a mermaid to a human to depict Plathâ⬠â¢s coming out of her shell. The feministic tone of the poem talks about the issue of women being in bad situations and the struggle of trying to find the motivation to escape and transform into an improved version of herself. Both poets use their poetry to explore different feminist views in order to discuss the freedom of empowering women; the poems convey the boundaries of social expectations and how this has limited the authors in their personal lives which serves as an encouragement to all listeners of their poetry. Furthermore, Wright, Plath, and Amy Winehouse explore the limitations of being confined in a mentally abusive relationship in order to highlight the importance of freedom in all of their respective pieces. Winehouse explores being in a relationship with a man who only stays with her for her wealth through techniques such as metaphors, colloquialisms, and similes. In a metaphor, she describes herself going, ââ¬Å"back to blackâ⬠, whenever her husband is unfaithful in their relationship. Being confined in a relationship with a man who detrimentally effects Winehouseââ¬â¢s emotional health causes her to fall back into the depression she has been struggling with for
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