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    poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses many literary devices to illustrate her struggles for freedom in relationship‚ precisely with her father and husband. She uses heavy metaphors and dense allusion to create imagery of hatred towards her relationship between both men. It is important to know Plath’s historical background before readers dive into any of her artistic work. Sylvia had a very negative relationship with men in her life especially her father and husband. Slyvia’s father‚ Otto Plath passed

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    Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" portrays her love and hate relationship with her own father. At first glance‚ the poem almost spits vivid words of rage and hate toward her father; but even on the second reading the very structure of the poem‚ as well as a few word choices betray the love she feels for him. This creates a warring duality and she herself the views this unresolved relationship as the root of her misery. The very title of the poem Daddy contradicts the face value of the poem as a whole

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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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    Tribulations of Ted Hughes On August 17‚ 1930 the great English poet‚ Edward James (Ted) Hughes‚ was born in Yorkshire. He attended Mexborough grammar school where his teachers proposed that he should take up writing‚ fueling his love of piecing together poetry. Hughes always had a love and interest for animals and they were a major theme in his writing even from an early age. In 1946 the schools magazine published his poem "The Wild West" and others in ’48. That same year Hughes won an open exhibition

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    Sairo Kola Justin Grant ENC 1102: Writing about poetry 29 October 2014 Looking at “Daddy” In her poignant memoir‚ “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath deconstructs her childhood relationship with her father and applies it to her ongoing relationship with controlling‚ oppressive men. Through powerful metaphorical language and reference to Nazism‚ machines of war‚ and a focus on gloomy‚ dark colors‚ Plath displays her inability to cope and find structure in her life without the male abuse and mental subordination

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    Ted Hughes’s full name was Edward James Hughes. He was born on Aug. 17‚ 1930‚ in Mytholmroyd‚ England. His parents were William Henry Hughes and Edith Hughes. William Hughes‚ Ted’s father‚ a carpenter‚ survived World War I‚ and he told stories about the war which left imprints in Ted’s imagination with violence and death. At the age of 7 he and his family moved to Mexborough‚ Yorkshire‚ and at Mexborough Grammar School he began to write poetry. He won a scholarship to Pembroke College‚ Cambridge

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    "Daddy"‚ one of Plaths most famous and detailed autobiographical poems‚ was written in the last years of her life and is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery. The sixteen stanza poem‚ through Plaths use of ambiguous symbolism‚ arguably is bitterly addressing Plaths father‚ who died when she was only eight‚ and her husband Ted Hughes‚ who had broken her "pretty red heart in two" (st.12‚ line 1). The poem is intense with once suppressed emotion‚ setting an aggressive‚ desperate‚ almost

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    In her poem Daddy‚ Sylvia Plath creates a speaker that embodies a fierce internal struggle embedded with a great fear of her true personal identity. Drawing on themes of persecution‚ violence‚ and victimization‚ the speaker begins to form her identity and battles with her father’s past. Throughout the poem she repeatedly persecutes her father‚ denying all connection to the Nazi identity he once held. In contrast to her father‚ the speaker never explicitly mentions her mother‚ only implying that she

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    me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In DaddyPlath 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‚ bright blue”. This use of allusion gives her father the image

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    poem‚ ‘The Jaguar’ written by Ted Hughes‚ is one of his most famous poems but no his only by far. From 1984 to his death‚ Hughes wrote poetry constantly. Critics rank him as one of the best poets of his time. ‘The Jaguar’ describes the different lifestyles of animals at a zoo and expresses how they feel about being trapped in their cages. It shows the slow‚ lazy movements from some of the animals to the fast‚ rapid movement of the jaguar. In ‘The Jaguar’‚ Ted Hughes uses techniques such as tone‚

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