Sylvia
Feminine woodland name
Sylvia is a feminine given name, from Latin meaning "of the forest." It has been used in English since the Renaissance, when poets favored it for pastoral imagery.
The spelling Silvia is also common.
Sylvia started violin lessons at age six.
Booth for admitting sins
- ArielAiry supernatural being
- HughesWelsh-origin family name
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- depressionProlonged low state
feminism · autobiography · journals · Colossus · suicide · Boston · Fulbright · electroshock
Metered poetic passage
- stanzaPoem's line grouping
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- imageryVivid descriptive language
- sonnetFourteen-line metered poem
rhyme · rhythm · confessional · elegy · lyricism · ode · meter · couplet
- namesakeOne sharing another's name
- femininePertaining to women
- monikerInformal designation for someone
- christeningCeremony naming a child
baptism · nameday · nickname · diminutive · endearment · personage · eponym
confessional
Booth for admitting sins
depression · feminism · autobiography · journals · Colossus · suicide · Boston · Fulbright · electroshock · motherhood
verse
Metered poetic passage
sonnet · rhyme · rhythm · confessional · elegy · lyricism · ode · meter · couplet · refrain
Plath
- namesakeOne sharing another's name
- femininePertaining to women
- monikerInformal designation for someone
christening · baptism · nameday · nickname · diminutive · endearment · personage · eponym
- BalletsSwan Lake, The Nutcracker, Nutcracker, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty
- Latin NamesAurelia, Augustus, Cassius, Claudia, Cornelia
- Old-Fashioned NamesMildred, Gertrude, Ethel, Edna, Bertha
- Botanical NamesBasil, Birch, Clover, Cypress, Dahlia
- poetspoet, Homer, Dante, Milton, Emily Dickinson
- MusesCalliope, Clio, muse, Thalia, muses