acronyms

Question 1

LUEF

Answer 1

• lifeless burden
• unresolved grief
• emotional paralysis
• Father and patriotic society overrated

Question 2

PRARW

Answer 2

• powerful representation of oppression and brutality
• repetition and childlike tone contrast with violent imagery
• aligns with mid-20th-century feminist concerns
• reimagines personal suffering
• woman infantilised

Question 3

JPMR

Answer 3

• jocks being transofrmed
• Plath puts men on a pedestal
• reflects tendencies to minimise oppression and reframe power dynamics
• romanticised or mythic perspective

Question 4

WRT

Answer 4

• Whoever she chooses dies on impact. She is the problem.
• reflects tendency to minimise external oppression by shifting the focus onto Plath herself
• Those chosen by plah doomed, reframing suffering as a consequence of her influence rather than systemic brutality

Question 5

EFET

Answer 5

• empowered here and comes to a realisation of her worth
• finished purification process and has come out other end
• exaggerates her sense of independence and highlights her liberation from social constraints and her emotional isolation
• transcends and is separate from others

Question 6

PDR

Answer 6

• Plath believes that is necessary to remove herself from men
• destroy herself in order for her to be truly free and liberated.
• reflects her belief that true freedom and liberation can only be achieved through separation from external influences,

Question 7

DSDP

Answer 7

• dismisses her distress, reinforcing a fatalistic view
• suffering is seen as something to be endured rather than overcome
• directness of this phrase contrasts with Plath’s emotionally intense poetry, highlighting their differing portrayals of pain
• Plath frames it as inescapable torment, while Hughes suggests it may be self-inflicted or overstated.

Question 8

DRMDC

Answer 8

• defensively and Repetitively frames his withdrawal as a means of self-preservation
• response to broader feminist view of him as an abusive figure
• minimizes his own involvement and agency in the emotional turmoil depicted in his relationship
• downplays the significance of his emotional engagement, which could have been seen as an act of triumph or redemption
• casts himself as a passive actor, emphasizing fate and inevitability over active participation in resolving or confronting the suffering