Sylvia Plath uses metaphors‚ and other literary devices to leave the reader with a feeling of anguish. The use of metaphors are often utilized throughout the poem‚ in order to compare her father to the most awful things a person could imagine. Throughout the poem she paints an image of her father as a Nazi‚ and herself as a Jew. She attempts to show the intimidation her father creates. The speaker says “Panzer-man‚ panzer-man‚ O you (45). “Panzer-man” is a German phrase referring to tank drivers
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Compare how the theme ‘passion’ is expressed by the poets Larkin and Plath Passion is an integral theme demonstrated in several poems by Sylvia Plath and Philip Larkin through their conscience use of literary devices which are explored in a number of auxiliary themes. The variety in techniques used‚ in addition to their differing attitudes towards the subjects of their poems express dissimilar versions of passion; there is a contrast in the levels of passion displayed: In Larkin’s poetry‚ a deficiency
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In the famous Poem of Daddy by Sylvia Plath has a significant meaning of the subject of marriage and gender issues‚ as she express a hatred for the two most important male figures in her life. In the summary of the poem who let the readers know her father was an abusive man who was a fascist and a nazi. Plath uses many figurative metaphors to describe him for example “ You do not do‚ you do not do Any more‚ black shoe In which I have lived like a foot”(Lines 1-3). Plath truly describes him as a
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Aimee Wooldridge English 123-013 Exploration Paper: First Draft 5 February 2013 "Daddy" Imagine being fourteen and meeting a man that is ten years your senior. This man tells you that you ’re different from everyone else and that you ’re the only person that understands him. You go out on small dates with this older man and you talk to him about everything‚ tell him your deepest secrets and at first‚ he seems like a dream come true; a hero. But later on down the road‚ this man talks you into
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of her maniac tendencies and obsession‚ she had her ‘own corpse in’ the ‘Grave of [her] risen father’. Plath’s anger and despair is cumulatively articulated in her poem Daddy. Her use of language techniques powerfully instructs and elicits sympathy in her readers when revealing her suffering and perspectives of her father. Daddy is a ‘confessional’ and a judgmental poem‚ addressed directly to her father with bitterness and sadness about her personal sufferings. This negativity with the apparent warmth
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Contrast of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath The two poems‚ “And One for My Dame” by Anne Sexton and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath‚ both explore similar themes through the use of literary elements such as structure‚ tone and symbolism. Structures in each poem are alike with length but differ with the actual form. The tone Plath conveys is negative one while Sexton’s is more neutral. The symbolism in “Daddy” was also negative with symbols of the devil but Sexton used a nursery rhyme as a symbol. The connotations
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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
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crawling under her house and taking her mother’s sleeping pills. She would spend the next 6 months in psychiatric care. Plath seemed to make a good recovery and returned to college and graduated with the highest honors. After graduating‚ Sylvia would go on to travel to London and get inspiration for her poems. While in London‚ she met her husband Ted Hughes. The two wound up marrying in London in 1956 and after a year; decided to return to Boston‚ where Sylvia returned to her alma mater to begin teaching
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special person to be a dad.” There are some people who do not have the opportunity to have a father in their life. Someone they can call dad. Like the men in the work’s “Daddy” Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke. A similarity of the works is that that the fathers were admired by their children. In contrast‚ In “Daddy” the fathers was abusive and in “My Papa’s Waltz” the father wasn’t abusive towards the son. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke the speaker is rejoicing
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and Plath portray many similar themes in their poetry; the theme of family relationships is illustrated in the poems ’Brothers’ and ’Before you were mine’ by Duffy and in ’Daddy’ and ’Medusa’ by Plath. All four poems portray a speaker looking back over relationships within their family members‚ however the context varies; in ’Daddy’‚ it is implied that a relationship between a father and a young girl has been cut short by death‚ resulting in a psychological battle between the speaker and an image of
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