To read the poem, click here. Seamus Heaney produces an ethereal imagery of nature while depicting the life we live in the modern times, being oblivious of the beauty that lies beside us in his poem, ‘Postscript’. Heaney takes a directorial stance to move through different transitions from nature to our human life, often zooming …
To read the poem, click here. ‘Mirror’ is a poem based on the idea of reflection, both at the outward and the inward self, in which Plath personifies a mirror as the speaking voice to best articulate the theme of self-exploration. There’s two levels of perspective that separate the poem in two stanzas which are …
To read the poem, click here. While it is rooted deeply in Plath’s personal life, her poem ‘Denouement’ becomes universal in exploring the disillusionment from relationships breaking away and of a family life torn apart. Using an extended metaphor of a circus to present the sceptical view of a marriage for show only by bringing …
