Plath Daddy Essay

David and Goliath: The Tale of Poetry The utility of poetry has been debated for thousands of years; around 2,500 years ago Plato called for it to be banned for its lack of utility. Plato’s views on poetry were not wrong; looking at it from a purely practical point of view, poetry is not a necessity. It is incomparable to what society considers essential – medicine, technology, leadership. If there were an apocalypse in the future, and we could select only a few people to survive it, the poet would

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” are all poems written about children getting beaten but have differing narrators and varying times. Although these poems may be about the same topic, they are presented in different points of view by the narrators. “My Papa’s Waltz” is in the first person point of view as it’s happening, “The Whipping” is also presented as it is happening, but is presented third person, however; “Daddy” is written as a reflection in the first person. While “My Papa’s Waltz” and “Daddy” are written

adulterous husbands or boyfriends, or relatives who molested them seem to become involved in relationships with men who, instead of being the opposite of the “monsters” in their lives, are the exact replicas of these ugly men. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a perfect example of this unfortunate trend. In this poem, she speaks directly to her dead father and her husband who has been cheating on her, as the poem so indicates. The first two stanzas, lines 1-10, tell the readers that

Sylvia Plath, an incredibly renowned poet and novelist, is well-known for her macabre, troubling, yet amusing works of literature. One of the hallmarks of this is her poem “Daddy.” In this poem, the speaker figuratively describes her relationship with her father through many caustic, abrasive metaphors. The narrator emphasizes her resentment towards her father in this poem, however, the speaker is unable to conceal the fact that she loves him as well. As such, this poem is filled with raw emotional

time and place in which she wrote her poetry. Betty Friedan describes the late fifties and early sixties for American women as a ‘comfortable concentration camp’ -- physically luxurious, mentally oppressive and impoverished.’” (Davison, 131) Plath felt like a victim to the men in her life,that depressed her at an intensive level.She became the victime of her father,her husband and the great male_dominated literary world.Her poetry can be understood as response to these feelings of victimization

haunted by the past always hoping their relationship could change. Once the parent passes it is impossible to reconcile any issues. The only option is to learn to forgive or forget any wrong doings and move on with life. Poets Lucille Clifton and Sylvia Plath both have poems that address this in very powerful and beautifully written ways. Both of their poems depict a speaker process of gaining freedom from their fathers after they have passed. Clifton’s poem “forgiving my father” is about a speaker that

What is the defining feature of the poem, and how does it contribute to the poem’s effect? The defining feature of the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath is the rhyme scheme. Forty-one out of the eighty lines in the poem rhyme with 'you' and none of the other thirty-nine lines rhyme with each other. In Daddy, 'you' refers to the speaker's father, and the rhyme scheme helps convey the speaker's attitude towards her father and his death. The constant referring back to 'you' emphasizes her frustration with

Powerless The speaker in “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is represented as small and inferior compared to her powerful, statue-like father. The speaker “[Does] not do/ any more, black shoe/ in which [she has] lived like a foot” where she was hidden and afraid (lines 1-3). The foot represents the speaker, whom is withering away from her father’s hierarchy and superiority. The black shoe is her father, who creates a barrier over the speaker, but doesn’t have the controlling power to take over the speaker

feminist; your words hit heavily in the mind, some psychologist view you and say you had an Electra complex due to one of your famous poem “Daddy” where it portrayed your father as a german nazi, however when people hear your name they ponder and remember with a question, “Wasn’t she the lady who killed herself by putting her head in an oven?”. Sylvia Plath, your life was not anything but hard, battling your depression many times. Your first suicide attempt, you were gone for days, your family

demonstrate this through my texts of; Little Fugue, and Morning Song both poems written by Sylvia Plath; the movie, Love Actually; and the book, Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce. Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath is my first example of how we all perceive our different relationships. This poem is about Plath talking of her father and herself and the lack of communication between the two. Throughout the poem, Plath contradicts herself, saying, ‘I was seven, I knew nothing’ yet she constantly talks of the