Daddy

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

Silvia Plath is an emotional writer, in her 1962 poem Daddy, she displays a complex set of emotions and feelings. The poem Daddy is like the rest poems of Sylvia Plath’s in a sense that they are dark, and leaving the reader with a sense of hopelessness and despair, and this makes the reader question himself why the author feels that way. The poem shows feelings of anger depression, and fear. This short-written poem will be analyzed on imagery, metaphor, and symbolism all these makes Sylvia Plath

Kenly Ramirez Period-3October 19, 2017Lady Lazarus and Daddy are poems narrated by Silvia Plath who is a Jewish victim of theHolocaust, in both poem they commonly shared the same purpose of suicide, as well connected with religious theme. This poems illustrate the struggle finding her identity against the oppression of a male which she faced throughout the poem. In the poem “Daddy”, she describes how her father impacted her life. The uses of phrases as “I have always been scared of you, your neat

Allusions in “Daddy” help express the speaker’s view of her father, as well as developing the conflict between them. The allusions reveal a parent that is physically and mentally abusive, leading to immense anger towards the father but also a need of that abusive behavior. The speaker uses allusions that are revealing about her father's characteristics like that her father is a strict man, as she was “Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.” She believed that her father treated her with neglect and

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. At a few different places throughout the poem, the speaker states that her father was anything but a good man. She describes a photo she has of

Another poem where the writer remembers the father but in a slightly negative and brutal concept is daddy by Silvia Plath. The speaker begins by saying that he "does not do anymore," and that she feels like she has been a ‘foot living in a black shoe for thirty years’, ‘too timid to either breathe or sneeze’. She insists that she needed to kill him (she refers to him a "Daddy"), but that he died before she had time. She describes him as heavy, like a "bag full of God, “resembling a statue which could

A prevailing feeling when someone dies is the feeling of having unfinished business. This idea was clearly incorporated into Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy. Through Plath’s life she despised her father. “Seven years, if you want to know” (74). Plath even compares him to a Nazi at one point in the poem, “I thought every German was you” (Pg. 29). Even though the Nazi period was not during the time of Daddy’s publishing date to associate the amount of hatred she had for her father Plath compares him to

“Daddy” written by Sylvia Plath an American poet best known for her dark, and confessional poems, and novels. Sylvia Plath lets you understand her thoughts through her writing, for example poems like “Daddy” and her novel The Bell Jar. More and more people learn about her work by reading her poetry or novels today. For one reason, this poem gives many emotions to the reader. By reading “Daddy” you can sense sadness, hopefulness, a broken child, while others may argue it is a cry for help. Secondly

where you put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you, the tongue struck in my jaw”. (Sylvia Plath, 1962). Have you every experience a lost love one? I believe Sylvia Plath this poem was written by her experience of a lost love one. She wrote “Daddy” in 1962 to explain, and interpret how she felt for her love lost one who was hated on, and how he treated her. In the poem Sylvia Plath definitely describe her true feelings about her departed father. At the beginning of her poem she interprets about

Upon hearing the word daddy, pleasant thoughts such as love, support, and dependence usually come to mind. Daddy is the person that little girls relate to, and count on to fix anything from boo-boos to a broken heart. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” one would expect to read about the love and comfort that a daddy can bring to a child, but after reading the first stanza it becomes clear that “Daddy” is far from anything lovely and beautiful. The speaker in “Daddy” is a girl who is emotionally torn. She