Comparison Of Sylvia Plath: The Wound And The Cure Of Words

Steven Gould Axelrod is an expert in nineteenth and twentieth-century American poetry, and his book “Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words” was published in 1990. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, born in 1932, and died in 1963 when she committed suicide. I totally agreed with Steven Gould Axelrod’s idea in this book, especially when he said that the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia’s most famous poem – is dramatic and allegorical. At the beginning of the book, Axelrod mostly focused on Sylvia’s life and how “Daddy” was brought into the world, then in the middle of the book, he compared how Sylvia described her father in her two poets, “Daddy” and “The Colossus,” and at the end, he continued to compare the figure “I” in “Daddy” and “The Colossus,” Sylvia herself identity. As Sylvia Plath described about the poem “Daddy,” she said that the poem spoken by a girl with Electra complex. Her case was more complicated by the fact that her father was a Nazi, and her mother was possibly part Jewish. This part is the thing that made me so confused because at that time of her life, 1932 to 1963, was the time that the Holocaust happened, 1941 to 1945. The Holocaust was a genocide in which about six million European Jews were killed, included 1.5 million children, by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. As the
In contrast, the “I” of “Daddy” actuates her gifts only through opposition to him. In “Daddy,” Sylvia finds her voice and motive by identifying herself as antithetical to her Fascist father, as a child of a Nazi, the girl could “hardly speak,” but as a Jew she begins “to talk.” Both in “The Colossus,” and in memories evoked “Daddy,” she trying to get back with her father, but now she seeks only to escape from him and to see him