Daddy Poetry Analysis Essay Outline
Poetry Analysis Essay Outline
Imagery & Conflict
Daddy Poems
Underline thesis and circle examples and lines. Concrete examples.
Sylvia – Daddy
Imagery:
“a bag full of God” (this was possibility a representation of how she saw her father or how her father saw himself)
“Gray toe” (once you die your body slowly decays and loses colour, such as how the words are placed like gray toe to show death, represent death)
“The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare.” (This part is heavy imagery and shows that she couldn’t speak, she was caught on her own words and it was like barbed wire on her, a similar situation”
“Any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two.” (Extremely dark and grotesque imagery. Paints a picture of …show more content…
pain and betrayal from a man who is of the darker side, not a good man. Hence why he is called the black man.)
“The black telephone’s off at the root, the voices just can’t worm through” (Nothing she hears or is said to her by the men of darkness penetrates her. The voices don’t reach her ears)
“The vampire who said he was you and drank my blood for a year,” (Paints more dark imagery and shows that whomever she was with was a person who sucked her dry of who’s he was, not a good person to her and very similar to her father.)
Conflict:
In the poem Sylvia has a strong conflict between her and her father.
Also between her and her husband, basically the prime men in her life.
She compares her father to Hitler to show and represent how horrible he is and how he neglected to be a great father to her hence the statement’s like
“Daddy, I have had to kill you”
“I have always been scared of you”
“You stand at the blackboard, daddy In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your food but no less a devil for that, no not any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two.”
She also shows more conflict when she starts to show that she tried to go back to her father (i.e. commit suicide)
“At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you I thought even the bones would do” showing that somewhere she loved and respected her father even though she had a growing conflict and hatred towards him.
Patrick – Daddy
Imagery:
“It was such a dark youth, a black trap with no seeing eye” (This one shows extensively dark imagery.
It shows that his youth was very unpleasant and that he felt trapped without any way out)
“each blink, each thought, a cul-de-sac, a point-of-view filled with cracks” (This creates a different type of imagery where the reader infers that everything the speaker did was basically like a dead end, there was one way in and one way out so he did things mechanically and his point-of-view to life in general was filled with cracks since his father left. He was absent of clear vision to the world around him)
“twenty years later you drifted by, and I saw a cloudy forecast in the sky” (this shows that after several years without his father he finally came around on and it wasn’t a good thing, hence the diction used by the writer “a cloud forcast in the sky”)
“I once carved your name into a pew, a catholic boy’s graffiti” (although this part is more referenced to religious paradox due to the “catholic boy’s graffiti” it is also an instance of imagery because the speaker creates an image of a child in the church carving his father’s name “an S.O.S for the needy”
Conflict:
In this poem the main character of the story seems to have been abandoned by his father. He had no true guidance and when he did comeback it didn’t mean anything anymore (It doesn’t matter, the flame went out, and now I am some other guy)
Main character shows more conflict with his father when he states “I drove my Daddy away” he sees himself as the problem and the reason why his father left in the first place. He blames himself for the lack of a parent.
Also, when his father comes around later on within the poem it is shown that he isn’t’ exactly happy. The speaker shows that his father coming to see him is a building bad feeling “twenty years later you drifted by, and I saw a cloudy forecast in the sky”
“Did you think the son would shine? I tried…I tried…” this shows that he tried to be good for his father. He tried to do all he could in order to bring his father back hence the “I tried…I tried…” the pun within the line also shows him as the son of his father and the sun that is within the sky.
Patrick also shows the clear explanation of the conflict between the speaker and the father when he states “A son’s love is no mere camel’s burden of spices” this shows that a sons love is more expensive and rare than spices then he changes it later to a negative connotation when he starts again with the “Who snuffed out that pristine candle, was it time or I” which shows that the life between the two of them has fallen apart and that they are no longer eligible to rekindle the relationship they have.
Comparing the two Poems
Both poems are riddled with imagery (give random examples, ones that go together like the way Patrick makes the relationship of a son and father seem so important and significant then digresses from this and reminds the reader that it no longer matters, then with Sylvia she uses the whole entire poem to state that her father is like the devil in disguise, yet he is still her father and she still wishes to be with him again hence the I tried to come back to you, even the bones would do
Both also have extensive amounts of conflict, the poems are, in fact, based around conflict. Both main characters feel a certain absence from their father (Like how Sylvia couldn’t speak to her father and how the speaker of Patrick’s had no father). Also both have occurrences of contradictions such as how Patrick seems to want to get his father back then changes back to not caring anymore because it no longer matters and how Sylvia tried to commit suicide to return back to her father.
Both poems show how significant an impact a parent has on a child. Since the speaker in Sylvia’s didn’t have a great father figure she ended up with a man similar to her father who ended up “drinking her blood for the last 7 years” and with Patrick he ended up leading a life astray from an amazing one which is shown when he talks about the wrong he’s done and how he tried his best to do good to no avail.
Imagery & Conflict
Daddy Poems
Underline thesis and circle examples and lines. Concrete examples.
Sylvia – Daddy
Imagery:
“a bag full of God” (this was possibility a representation of how she saw her father or how her father saw himself)
“Gray toe” (once you die your body slowly decays and loses colour, such as how the words are placed like gray toe to show death, represent death)
“The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare.” (This part is heavy imagery and shows that she couldn’t speak, she was caught on her own words and it was like barbed wire on her, a similar situation”
“Any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two.” (Extremely dark and grotesque imagery. Paints a picture of …show more content…
pain and betrayal from a man who is of the darker side, not a good man. Hence why he is called the black man.)
“The black telephone’s off at the root, the voices just can’t worm through” (Nothing she hears or is said to her by the men of darkness penetrates her. The voices don’t reach her ears)
“The vampire who said he was you and drank my blood for a year,” (Paints more dark imagery and shows that whomever she was with was a person who sucked her dry of who’s he was, not a good person to her and very similar to her father.)
Conflict:
In the poem Sylvia has a strong conflict between her and her father.
Also between her and her husband, basically the prime men in her life.
She compares her father to Hitler to show and represent how horrible he is and how he neglected to be a great father to her hence the statement’s like
“Daddy, I have had to kill you”
“I have always been scared of you”
“You stand at the blackboard, daddy In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your food but no less a devil for that, no not any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two.”
She also shows more conflict when she starts to show that she tried to go back to her father (i.e. commit suicide)
“At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you I thought even the bones would do” showing that somewhere she loved and respected her father even though she had a growing conflict and hatred towards him.
Patrick – Daddy
Imagery:
“It was such a dark youth, a black trap with no seeing eye” (This one shows extensively dark imagery.
It shows that his youth was very unpleasant and that he felt trapped without any way out)
“each blink, each thought, a cul-de-sac, a point-of-view filled with cracks” (This creates a different type of imagery where the reader infers that everything the speaker did was basically like a dead end, there was one way in and one way out so he did things mechanically and his point-of-view to life in general was filled with cracks since his father left. He was absent of clear vision to the world around him)
“twenty years later you drifted by, and I saw a cloudy forecast in the sky” (this shows that after several years without his father he finally came around on and it wasn’t a good thing, hence the diction used by the writer “a cloud forcast in the sky”)
“I once carved your name into a pew, a catholic boy’s graffiti” (although this part is more referenced to religious paradox due to the “catholic boy’s graffiti” it is also an instance of imagery because the speaker creates an image of a child in the church carving his father’s name “an S.O.S for the needy”
Conflict:
In this poem the main character of the story seems to have been abandoned by his father. He had no true guidance and when he did comeback it didn’t mean anything anymore (It doesn’t matter, the flame went out, and now I am some other guy)
Main character shows more conflict with his father when he states “I drove my Daddy away” he sees himself as the problem and the reason why his father left in the first place. He blames himself for the lack of a parent.
Also, when his father comes around later on within the poem it is shown that he isn’t’ exactly happy. The speaker shows that his father coming to see him is a building bad feeling “twenty years later you drifted by, and I saw a cloudy forecast in the sky”
“Did you think the son would shine? I tried…I tried…” this shows that he tried to be good for his father. He tried to do all he could in order to bring his father back hence the “I tried…I tried…” the pun within the line also shows him as the son of his father and the sun that is within the sky.
Patrick also shows the clear explanation of the conflict between the speaker and the father when he states “A son’s love is no mere camel’s burden of spices” this shows that a sons love is more expensive and rare than spices then he changes it later to a negative connotation when he starts again with the “Who snuffed out that pristine candle, was it time or I” which shows that the life between the two of them has fallen apart and that they are no longer eligible to rekindle the relationship they have.
Comparing the two Poems
Both poems are riddled with imagery (give random examples, ones that go together like the way Patrick makes the relationship of a son and father seem so important and significant then digresses from this and reminds the reader that it no longer matters, then with Sylvia she uses the whole entire poem to state that her father is like the devil in disguise, yet he is still her father and she still wishes to be with him again hence the I tried to come back to you, even the bones would do
Both also have extensive amounts of conflict, the poems are, in fact, based around conflict. Both main characters feel a certain absence from their father (Like how Sylvia couldn’t speak to her father and how the speaker of Patrick’s had no father). Also both have occurrences of contradictions such as how Patrick seems to want to get his father back then changes back to not caring anymore because it no longer matters and how Sylvia tried to commit suicide to return back to her father.
Both poems show how significant an impact a parent has on a child. Since the speaker in Sylvia’s didn’t have a great father figure she ended up with a man similar to her father who ended up “drinking her blood for the last 7 years” and with Patrick he ended up leading a life astray from an amazing one which is shown when he talks about the wrong he’s done and how he tried his best to do good to no avail.