Daddy By Sylvia Plath
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Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10
Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one, of course. If do not take into consideration that the poem is confessional we might think from the title “Daddy” that the poem actually is devoted to the loving father. I wondered how a daughter can have so much hatred towards father.
In the very beginning stanza Sylvia Plath compares her father to the black shoe in which she has lived for thirty years. But, in fact, we know that Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath died prematurely from developed diabetes when she was only 8 years old. Therefore here, we come to the conclusion that the poem itself is generally, a strong resentment against men and male domination of women which she experienced throughout her life as she committed suicide when she was only thirty years old. So Sylvia speaks about all the men in the face of her father. There is the interview she gave to BBC:
The poem is spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. The father died when she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly part Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze each-other –she has to act out the awful little allegory once over before she is free of it.
Literary, it explains that her father left her when she thought he was God. And probably, after his death they couldn’t live a good life and afford many things, for these she had to achieve everything herself with her own efforts. So she gets disappointed
Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath
课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10
Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one, of course. If do not take into consideration that the poem is confessional we might think from the title “Daddy” that the poem actually is devoted to the loving father. I wondered how a daughter can have so much hatred towards father.
In the very beginning stanza Sylvia Plath compares her father to the black shoe in which she has lived for thirty years. But, in fact, we know that Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath died prematurely from developed diabetes when she was only 8 years old. Therefore here, we come to the conclusion that the poem itself is generally, a strong resentment against men and male domination of women which she experienced throughout her life as she committed suicide when she was only thirty years old. So Sylvia speaks about all the men in the face of her father. There is the interview she gave to BBC:
The poem is spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. The father died when she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly part Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze each-other –she has to act out the awful little allegory once over before she is free of it.
Literary, it explains that her father left her when she thought he was God. And probably, after his death they couldn’t live a good life and afford many things, for these she had to achieve everything herself with her own efforts. So she gets disappointed