Metaphors In Daddy

The Tone of “Daddy” and “My Papa’s Waltz” is what differentiates the two child-father relationships in the poems from one another with “Daddy” having a tone of hate and fear

With the use of imagery, the poet communicates to the reader the emotional bond between the father and his son. In the first stanza of the poem, the he illustrates a clear picture between the son and the father. "The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy But I hung on like death Such waltzing was not easy." the poet is saying that the father may not be the best father in the world with his breath smelling like whiskey, but despite that, the son hangs on like death. The simile the poet

From the previous examples of metaphors and similes, I found most compelling the poem “Mother to Son” because by using this metaphor, I could imagine the struggles of this mother in her life.

The representation of father-son type relationships in literature is used by authors to give their work more depth and meaning. Three poems that rely on this theme are “My Father’s Song” by Simon J. Ortiz, “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The author’s style in these poems carefully craft poetic language that demonstrates the complex nature of a father-son relationship.

In Sylvia Plath’s infamous poem, “Daddy,” she gives us insight into the speaker’s relationship with her father. It may be difficult to understand their connection within the first few lines due to the murky, dark tones of the poem. Did the speaker hate her father, or did the speaker love him? After reading, the poem itself could be seen as a cry for help and to finally acknowledge how his death made the speaker feel. The speaker had lived 23 years of her life without her father, spending that time feeling lonely and trapped, confined within the mere eight years of memories she had with him before his passing. The poet created a powerful image of the speaker’s father using heavy metaphors to illustrate his authority and powerful influence. The speaker lashes out at her dead father in what can be called a “hate poem”, presumably because she feels abandoned by him after his death. The speaker remains elusive throughout the poem on whether she is done with his hold over her, or whether she’s finally gotten through to her father’s character and she now understands him. The poet displays the intricacies of a father-daughter relationship and all of its complexities through diction, metaphors, imagery and tone, creating a compelling piece that makes readers wonder whether there was any love involved.

In each of the three poems, the dynamics of a relationship with a father are reflected upon by each poet. Each of the poems has a remarkably different feel to them. By using techniques such as mood, imagery and simile/metaphor, the poet is able to convey the emotions that are tied to their relationship with their father. In these examples, the relationships run a full gamut of emotions that each poet experienced. There is a display of lost opportunity mixed with regret in “Those Winter Sundays”, a fond recollection of times past in “My Father’s Hat” and memories of a harsh situation in “My Papa’s Waltz”.

As the reader connects this “metaphor” to his father, the reader begins to feel sympathy for the father and son. The reader understands that the son wants to spend more time with the father, “And you, my father, there on the sad height... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (p.927) The extended metaphors really allow for the readers to capture the understanding needed to connect the imagery with the father to truly understand the poem’s tone,

Story: A woman creates an image of her father; she uses many different metaphors to describe her past relationship with him, he is like a shoe, a black shoe that she had to live in without him. Words Situation: She describes an axe cutting into a tree, causing the sap to flow, until the tree falls.

Relationships can be hard to manage, especially when it comes to family. The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath is about a cynical father who died and left his daughter a wreck. Although the father was a bad man, his daughter thought the world of him. The speaker of the poem hates her father because she wants to be like him even though he was not a good man.

Throughout this poem he uses imagery, metaphors, symbolic meaning and other figurative language of his perspective as an adult going through childhood memory with his father. The setting in this poem is based on a memory in an autumn day outside the porch with his father while he speaks to his young child who can barely understand the meanings and expressions he has as an adult. The title of the poem gives a theme named after a character or event in the event which also proves a symbolized image of a traditional insight or achievement of wisdom. However, it is told that this may or may not be an actual event, but an idea of fatherhood or point reasons being expressed or an emotional or spiritual exhaustion in this short poem (Ruby and Milne

“No s**t. That’s how Daddy got so fat. By the way, I’ve decided to start referring to myself exclusively as ‘Daddy.’ Every time Daddy would otherwise say ‘I’ or “Me,’ Daddy is now going to say ‘Daddy.’ You like?” (Green 98)

Although everyone has a father, the relationship that each person has with his or her father is different. Some are close to their fathers, while some are distant; some children adore their fathers, while other children despise them. For example, in Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” Hayden writes about his regret that he did not show his love for his hardworking father sooner. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” she writes about her hatred for her brute father. Despite both authors writing on the same topic, the two pieces are remarkably different. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” have different themes that are assembled when the authors put their different uses of imagery, tone, and characterization together.

Both Poems My Father in the Navy and Daddy shows the importance of that relationship between fathers and daughters. In which the relationship between a father and daughter can impact them in both in negative and positive aspects. An example of this is in both poems the speakers had to deal with absent fathers. Both