“Daddy” – Sylvia Plath (Poetry Analysis 1) Plath‚ best known for her confessional poetry is credited to have written the poem “Daddy” in the year‚ 1962. However‚ it was posthumously published in 1965. The use of explicit imagery throughout the poem reflects her style. Using the Holocaust as a metaphor‚ Plath gives the poem its much-intended nightmarish quality suggestive of her complex relationship with her father‚ Otto Plath. “Daddy” is almost potentially autobiographical in the sense that it
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“Fiesta 1980” and “Daddy” Both poems are about memories of the relationship with their father. However‚ the experiences are very different. The children presented in “Fiesta 1980” by Junot Diaz and “Daddy” by Silvia Plath suffers an internal struggle because of their fathers. In “Fiesta 1980” there is a chance to improve the relationship where as in “Daddy” there is no hope because the father is dead. In “Fiesta 1980” we can tell the story is told in the first person by and adolescent Latino
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Sylvie Plath’s “Daddy” explores the power imbalance of gender relations and the negative effects of oppression on women in a male-dominated society. The speaker’s portrayal of the patriarchal system as her “daddy” describes the infinite power enforced through hegemony on women and how women are “chuffed up as Jews” into slavery‚ suppression and loss of self-identity. The use of child discourse with words like “achoo” and “gobbledygoo” portrays the speaker as having a child-like innocence which ironically
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as skin tone‚ gender‚ or sexuality‚ but it can also stem from deep psychological traumas‚ which is present in Plath’s “Daddy”. Despite the complexity of hatred‚ some poets have managed to put pen to paper and come up with beautiful poems that effectively recreate the feeling of hatred in all their readers. Sylvia Plath did not live a happy life. She mentions in her poem “Daddy” that she was ten years old when they buried her father and “at twenty I tried to die/ And get back‚ back‚ back to you”
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成绩 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
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“And the language obscene / An engine‚ and engine / Chuffing me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In Daddy‚ Plath depicts herself as a victim‚ as she compares herself to a Jew and her father as a Nazi. She uses this train metaphor to depict herself as a victimized Jew who is being taken away to a concentration camp. Plath uses allusions to describe her father as Hitler‚ as it is written “And your neat moustache / And your Aryan eyes
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my room lies a small‚ stringy blanket. That blanket was beautifully hand-made by my great grandmother who wove it just for me‚ but after enduring the hardships of being in the hands of a toddler‚ the yarn began to fall apart. Although the string may not all be there‚ the memories that replaced the yarn will be there forever. The memories that torn-up blanket hold are just as woven into the blanket as the string. Even though I may no longer be able to use the blanket‚ I will always hold onto it to
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Because when Mrs. Lippett (the matron) wanted‚ she always kept her at home to scrub. Jerusha never complained‚ only once she wrote an essay‚ entitled “Blue Wednesday”‚ trying to ridicule the life in the asylum. Later on in her letters to Daddy-Long-Legs she wrote that hated the John Grier Home‚ that she would rather die than go back. She wrote that the asylum supplied the orphans only with food and clothes‚ but never took care about the children’s souls. The John Grier Home’s aim was to
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Daddy had been gone for almost half a year now but I still remember it like it was yesterday. It was early winter in the state of North Carolina‚ my brother Ian and I have been waiting for this day for months now. It was Christmas. Ian and I ran downstairs at 7 in the morning hoping Mammy and Daddy were awake. Unfortunately they weren’t so we woke them up. Mammy and Daddy slowly stumbled down the stairs till they finally made it to the living room. Where they presented us with two gifts‚ one for
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