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    Daddy by Sylvia Plath

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    Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a poem that takes the reader through Plath’s life with an oppressive father. Through detailed‚ five-line stanzas she gives examples to compare her life to that of a Jew or to the lady that lived in a shoe. Plath uses visual imagery of a Nazi‚ in particular‚ Adolf Hitler to describe her father’s oppressive ways. The poem gives off a very weary perception of Plath fighting emotionally to get away from the life of silence and abuse. Moving deeper through Plath’s poem‚ she depicts

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    Daddy By Sylvia Plath

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    Of all the emotions‚ hatred is one of the most intense. It can manifest itself from simple notions such 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

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    Metaphors By Sylvia Plath

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    have changed as time progresses‚ authors have wrote about the same hardships in their work while still adding their own unique voices. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath and Stoner by John Williams‚ each author explores social expectations of women in post-war America illustrating the influences on literature and its audience. In Metaphors by Sylvia Plath‚ she demonstrates a first person point of view on what it is like to be held to the expectations of childbirth in 1959. This

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    Metaphors by Sylvia Plath

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    be less active‚ show less attention and are more irritable and agitated than babies born to moms who are not depressed (“American Pregnancy Association”). In the poem “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath‚ her choice of words for the poem seem to express her feelings of depression toward the issue of her pregnancy. Plath chose many metaphors to describe her pregnancy. From her choice of words‚ one gets the feeling as if she is not enjoying the fact that she is pregnant‚ nor is she looking forward to

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    Sylvia Plath Metaphors

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    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 black

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    Cut by Sylvia Plath

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    "Cut" Sylvia Plath [CONTENT] Persona In terms of content the persona in "Cut" is Sylvia Plath herself. Plath was one of the first American women writers to refuse to conceal her true emotions. In articulating her aggression‚ hostility and despair in her art‚ she effectively challenged the traditional literary prioritization of female experience. Plath has experienced much melancholy and depression in her life. Scenario The scenario of the poem starts off in a seemingly domestic scene‚

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    Sylvia Plath Vertical

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    begins Sylvia Plath‚ before she pivots and reveals her true feelings with the first line: “But I would rather be horizontal” (1). In her March 1961 poem “I am Vertical‚” Sylvia Plath sets up her own coordinate plane consisting of the vertical axis and the horizontal axis. The vertical axis stands for all things human‚ and in the eyes of Plath‚ the plight of her own humanity. The horizontal axis represents the plane of the natural world‚ and later‚ comes with the darker implication of death. Plath finds

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    Sylvia Plath "Daddy"

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    “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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    Sylvia Plath was an American poet‚ novelist‚ and short story writer. She was born in Boston Massachusetts on October 27th 1932. She struggled deeply with depression much of her adult life‚ stemming from the death of her father at age eight. Aside from her depression‚ Sylvia excelled academically at Smith College‚ and because of that went on to receive a Fulbright scholarship to the highly competitive Newham College in Cambridge. She continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the

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    Mirror by Sylvia Plath

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    In the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she

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