Sylvia Likens

readers. Lucille Clifton’s, “Forgiving my Father,” and Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” are two unique poems, both based on different scenarios, however, both share an assortment of noteworthy similarities. One similarity between “Forgiving my Father,” and “Daddy,” is the obvious hatred towards a father figure, shared between both authors. In the poem “Forgiving my Father,” Clifton describes her father as an “old lecher old liar,” (9-10). Then in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” she says this statement about her father

even the way they were ordered poems. In the case that concerns us Sylvia Plath I could not shake that biographism; What 's more, thanks to him I met the poetry of this woman who, otherwise, would never have aroused my curiosity. So, biographical circumstance for some critics is almost like a curse. It has been the key element that led me to the poetry of this woman. My first approach to Sylvia Plath came after seeing the film Sylvia (a biopic, to increase my biographer fault) starring Gwyneth Paltrow

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath, an open minded, free spirited author and poet of a variety of many pieces. All of Plath’s poems are inspired by her personal life and how she viewed it. According to Plath, “It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles” (Sylvia Quotes). Reveals and proves how free spirited

Freedom from Male Oppression in Sylvia Plath's Daddy Word Count includes Poem    Sylvia Plath?s poem "Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and conjures the struggle many women face in a male-dominated society. The conflict of this poem is male authority versus the right of a female to control her own life and be free of male domination. Plath?s conflicts begin with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband. This conflict is examined

Daddy Good Country People and Shiloh Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”, Flannary O’Connor’s “Good Country People”, and Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh” all have something in common. In each, the relationship between a parent and child is discussed. It is left up to the reader to decide the nature of the relationship. Although what stands out in Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" is the Nazi imagery, it is interesting to note that the father is not called a Nazi in the first half of the poem. In the

Sylvia Plath's Mirror Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" offers a unique perspective on the attitudes of aging. "Mirror" displays tremendous insight and objectivity into the natural human behavior of growing older. Plath is able to emphasize the loneliness, hope, despair, and insecurity that awaits us through mankind's incessant addiction with reflection. "Mirror" expresses the problems associated with aging through terse comparisons between reality and desire. Plathe's

Mirror is a poem that is full of imagery, symbols, and riddles. It is straight-forward enough in the first stanza to be able to detect who the speaker is, but riddled enough in the second stanza to require an interpretation of the purpose, that’s what makes this poem so enticing. From the beginning to the end this poem contains many symbols, water being one of the first to appear. It is first described as unmisted, acting as a reflecting surface on the mirror. In the end, water takes on the position

Sylvia Plath once said, "It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative- whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it,"(Brainyquote). Sylvia Plath had her despairing negative moments, but she also had her joyous positive moments. Plath was an extremely talented, unique, and creative writer and her work is still remembered today. Plath influenced literature in a positive manner because she used her poetry to stand up for

Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are two very alike women. Both were born in Massachusetts, both wrote poetry, and both committed suicide. A common factor that particularly stands out in these two women is that they both suffered some form of mental problem, but they used that to transfer it onto their writing. It was because of their depression that they were able to be so successful in their writing careers. But even after having poems and books published, that wasn’t enough to satisfy their happiness

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