English Literature[EXAM]

The Poem Daddy, by Sylvia Plath describes the author’s relationship and feelings towards her father that have also carried over into all of her relationships with men. In the poem her father is shown to be all powerful, Godlike and a “ghastly statue”. She describes her feelings that she must kill her father “Daddy I have to kill you”, but at age ten her father dies before she has the chance to do him in herself. Because of this her feelings towards him are left unresolved. These unresolved feelings lead to problems in all of her relationships with men, lead to feelings of oppression and control by men._In the first stanza Plath describes the influence of the speakers father has over her. She describes the speaker as a foot living inside a shoe and this foreshadows that the poem may be about a relationship, a smothering uncomfortable relationship. The shoe is portrayed as in being her father. Plath describes the speaker as “poor and white” inside the shoe. White because she is always inside the shoe, it consumes her, keeping out the air and sunlight that see needs. This is interesting because the purpose of ahoe is to protect the feet, but in her case the shoe is trapping her keeping her in a state of fear towards her father. This fear of her father is so great that she becomes barley daring to breath or “Achoo”. Of course it must be hard to breathe while being completely covered by the shoe of her father. There is also foreshadowing in Act 1 scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet where Sampson and Gregory foreshadow the possible shame and trickery of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Samson’s opening line, "Gregory, on my word, we’ll not carry coals", this implies humiliation or shame. This foreshadows the shame seen in the love between Romeo and Juliet which causes them to resort to deceit and trickery impacting greatly the relationship of Juliet and her father Capulet. _

In the second stanza she describes her father as “Marble-heavy”, “a bag full of God”, and as a