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Life and Death
Mind map: Life and Death poetry: Blake and Plath
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Life and Death
William Blake- London
- "And blights with plagues that Marriage hearse"
- Oxymoronic- linking marriage (love) to funeral (death)
- Love lost in the rotten world
- Is marriage the end of your life?
- The "marriage hearse" is a vehicle in which love and desire combine with death and distruction
- Blake talks about love as a negative thing that leads you to death
- Oxymoronic- linking marriage (love) to funeral (death)
- "And blights with plagues that Marriage hearse"
Sylvia Plath- Letter in November
- "Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color."
- Love has metaphorically changed the colour of Sylvia's world
- If you can see in colour it suggests you can see more clearly and connotes Plath could possibly see a new purpose in life
- Suggests the change in Sylvia's perspective has been positive
- Plath talks about the positive impact of love on her life
- Love has metaphorically changed the colour of Sylvia's world
- "Love, the world Suddenly turns, turns color."
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- The similarities and differences between Blake and Plath's theme of life and death
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