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Blog week 8
1) Write a strong TEA paragraph in which you summarize and compare how Crozier and Wilbur use an extended metaphor to write about life or growing up.
Wilbur and Crozier use extended metaphors to write about life’s journey. Wilbur in his poem “The writer” speaks about his teenage daughter in her early writing days: “Young as she is, the stuff of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: I wish her a lucky passage.” He is describing his daughter’s dream and ambition of becoming a writer as a challenging path. The “great cargo” is most likely that of trials his daughter must face. He recognizes that his daughter is going to have to face challenges, many of which are “heavy” or demanding on ones soul to become a successful writer. The path of an author is one that is long and filled with many roadblocks. As Crozier says in her poem “Packing for the future: Intructions,” “There may be doors nailed shut. There may be painted windows. There may be signs that warn you to be gone. Take the dream you've been having since you were a child, the one with open fields and the wind sounding.” The “doors nailed shut,” “painted windows” and “signs that warn you to be gone” are most likely all representative of many roadblocks that appear in our lives, just as Wilbur’s daughter will face in her life. For example, when Wilbur’s daughter will try to publish her book there will be publishers who will not open their doors for a teenager, some who will not have an opened mind to a teenagers writings and others that will tell her that her writing is worthless and to give up. In these times, she must “Take the dream” that she’s had since she was “a child” and ignore everyone who tells her that she cannot be a writer. She must hold her dream dear to heart, have complete faith in herself and persist until she has achieved her goal. Which was exactly what Wilbur’s daughter did. She released her first book at a very young age. The lesson here is never to let life discourage one for achieving their dream, and to always keep faith and persist until their vision is achieved.
2) Find out something about Sylvia Plath's life and death. Identify areas where there is overlap with "Daddy." Are the details always accurate? Why would an author choose to write her life in this way? Jeanette Winterson wrote, "There is no autobiography; there is only art and lies." Do you think Plath would agree with her?
Sylvia Plath committed suicide at the age of thirty by placing her head inside her gas oven and turning it on dying from suffocation. Her suicide occurred shortly after the end of her miserable seven year marriage. Plath’s poem “Daddy” overlaps with her life a great deal by the description her empty relationship with her father, which her two orphaned children then experienced with their mother, and her earlier attempt to commit suicide. As for Jeanette Winterson comment, I’m inclined to believe that Sylvia Plath would have agreed with Jeanette Winterson. For Sylvia’s poems contained vague truths about her life and was filled with artistic falsehoods in order to bring depth to her poems.
Wilbur and Crozier use extended metaphors to write about life’s journey. Wilbur in his poem “The writer” speaks about his teenage daughter in her early writing days: “Young as she is, the stuff of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy: I wish her a lucky passage.” He is describing his daughter’s dream and ambition of becoming a writer as a challenging path. The “great cargo” is most likely that of trials his daughter must face. He recognizes that his daughter is going to have to face challenges, many of which are “heavy” or demanding on ones soul to become a successful writer. The path of an author is one that is long and filled with many roadblocks. As Crozier says in her poem “Packing for the future: Intructions,” “There may be doors nailed shut. There may be painted windows. There may be signs that warn you to be gone. Take the dream you've been having since you were a child, the one with open fields and the wind sounding.” The “doors nailed shut,” “painted windows” and “signs that warn you to be gone” are most likely all representative of many roadblocks that appear in our lives, just as Wilbur’s daughter will face in her life. For example, when Wilbur’s daughter will try to publish her book there will be publishers who will not open their doors for a teenager, some who will not have an opened mind to a teenagers writings and others that will tell her that her writing is worthless and to give up. In these times, she must “Take the dream” that she’s had since she was “a child” and ignore everyone who tells her that she cannot be a writer. She must hold her dream dear to heart, have complete faith in herself and persist until she has achieved her goal. Which was exactly what Wilbur’s daughter did. She released her first book at a very young age. The lesson here is never to let life discourage one for achieving their dream, and to always keep faith and persist until their vision is achieved.
2) Find out something about Sylvia Plath's life and death. Identify areas where there is overlap with "Daddy." Are the details always accurate? Why would an author choose to write her life in this way? Jeanette Winterson wrote, "There is no autobiography; there is only art and lies." Do you think Plath would agree with her?
Sylvia Plath committed suicide at the age of thirty by placing her head inside her gas oven and turning it on dying from suffocation. Her suicide occurred shortly after the end of her miserable seven year marriage. Plath’s poem “Daddy” overlaps with her life a great deal by the description her empty relationship with her father, which her two orphaned children then experienced with their mother, and her earlier attempt to commit suicide. As for Jeanette Winterson comment, I’m inclined to believe that Sylvia Plath would have agreed with Jeanette Winterson. For Sylvia’s poems contained vague truths about her life and was filled with artistic falsehoods in order to bring depth to her poems.