Annotated Bibliography
Conway, Cathleen Allyn. "Through the Looking Glass: A Discussion of Doubling in Sylvia Plath's "Mirror"" Plath Profiles 3 (2010): 39-46. Web.
“voice her insecurities” is good when describing the intent of Plath’s poem. Mirror is about projecting insecurities into an objective object. Plath uses the poem to show how women would run up the mirror everyday and try to look as beautiful as the ads and commercials during the time, but get upset because it was not reality and instead resort to the candles and moonlight mentioned in the poem.
“In the poem, a woman regularly consults a mirror for answers and is unhappy with the results. The symbolism in this straightforward image is rich”. This is a good summary of the poem, and can be used as an introduction into the analysis.
Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. "'Bad' Language can be Good: Slang and Other Expressions of Extreme Informality in Sylvia Plath's Poetry." English Studies 78.1 (1997): 19-31. ProQuest. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
“highly informal, matching the poem’s urgent tone and fast pace.” can be used to describe the tone and speed of the poem. The speaker, is a sales person that is objectification woman's role in marriage as that of a product or a tool that may be sold. This description of the speakers and language allows me to parallel them to that idea.
“The speaker, a matchmaker marriage-license dispenser, fires a series of preposterous questions at a man in search of a usable wife” also serves as a good summary of the poem which could be used right before the analysis.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Changes in women’s labor force participation in the 20th century on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/feb/wk3/art03.htm(visited November 13, 2013).
Shows a 270 percent increase in women working over 50 years and only a 70 percent increase in men working, highlighting the fact that less women worked then men in the 1950s because of how rapid the growth of the woman work force was over 50 years in comparison to mens.
USA. Census. Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010: A Focus on Race Difference. By Diana B. Elliot, Kristy Krivickas, and Matthew Brault. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Shows a chart in which woman’s median marriage age was calculated from 1890 to 2010. Women were getting married the youngest during the 1950s, contributing to my idea that women were mainly housewives during that time.
USA. Bureau Labor of Statististics. A Century of Change: The U.S. Labor Force, 1950–2050. By Miltra Toossi. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Shows statistics of women in the labor force and concludes that only a third of women were working in the 1950s compared to over half of women working in modern day.
“voice her insecurities” is good when describing the intent of Plath’s poem. Mirror is about projecting insecurities into an objective object. Plath uses the poem to show how women would run up the mirror everyday and try to look as beautiful as the ads and commercials during the time, but get upset because it was not reality and instead resort to the candles and moonlight mentioned in the poem.
“In the poem, a woman regularly consults a mirror for answers and is unhappy with the results. The symbolism in this straightforward image is rich”. This is a good summary of the poem, and can be used as an introduction into the analysis.
Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. "'Bad' Language can be Good: Slang and Other Expressions of Extreme Informality in Sylvia Plath's Poetry." English Studies 78.1 (1997): 19-31. ProQuest. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.
“highly informal, matching the poem’s urgent tone and fast pace.” can be used to describe the tone and speed of the poem. The speaker, is a sales person that is objectification woman's role in marriage as that of a product or a tool that may be sold. This description of the speakers and language allows me to parallel them to that idea.
“The speaker, a matchmaker marriage-license dispenser, fires a series of preposterous questions at a man in search of a usable wife” also serves as a good summary of the poem which could be used right before the analysis.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Editor's Desk, Changes in women’s labor force participation in the 20th century on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/feb/wk3/art03.htm(visited November 13, 2013).
Shows a 270 percent increase in women working over 50 years and only a 70 percent increase in men working, highlighting the fact that less women worked then men in the 1950s because of how rapid the growth of the woman work force was over 50 years in comparison to mens.
USA. Census. Historical Marriage Trends from 1890-2010: A Focus on Race Difference. By Diana B. Elliot, Kristy Krivickas, and Matthew Brault. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Shows a chart in which woman’s median marriage age was calculated from 1890 to 2010. Women were getting married the youngest during the 1950s, contributing to my idea that women were mainly housewives during that time.
USA. Bureau Labor of Statististics. A Century of Change: The U.S. Labor Force, 1950–2050. By Miltra Toossi. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Shows statistics of women in the labor force and concludes that only a third of women were working in the 1950s compared to over half of women working in modern day.