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PHONEY! SYLVIA PLATH IS A PHONEY!

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Whoa! call the poetry police! The accuracy of the poem is under dispute! Pssshhh…who cares?! Who ever said poetry had to be filled with facts? If you want to read facts, go read an essay. So Plath stretched the truth in “Daddy.” So what? As if Picasso’s paintings looked like what they were supposed to be! An artist or author shouldn’t be forced to adhere to reality or facts. So she lied about her age, and her father wasnt a vampire… Plath used specific wording and misinformation deliberatly in her poem, and who are we to question that? Now, as far as why she misinforms the reader…who knows? She might have intended for us to sympathize with her, not just think she was some crazy old bat with issues about her daddy, and deliberatly making things seem extra crappy for her might just make that happen.

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Modernism…damnit, I hate defining ‘isms, there are too many! Modernism essentially sought to break free of the realist thought pattern that had prevailed for the majority of the 19th century. Essentially they attempted to rebel against some aspect of tradition or the status quo (thank you Wikipedia!). Stream on conciousness writing essentially mimicks the helter-skelter thought patterns of the human mind. It tends to be somewhat like…well your stream of concious thoughts! In “Prufrock” the lines read almost as if they are our own thoughts. I guess this is different from other forms or narrative in just that, the narration reads much like it is our own thoughts, not so much a story being told to us. Hmm…interesting stuff…

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