Sylvia Likens

Poetry is often thought of as art meant for the most tortured souls. Sylvia Plath is no exception, as many of her poems express her emotional descent into depression and despair. In one particular poem titled “Daddy”, Plath allows readers into her life and family. She shows them how her father—a man meant to protect and love—actually caused much of her own personal difficulties. Within “Daddy”, Plath exposes for who he was in her eyes: a nazi, a swastika, and so on. These metaphors not only serve

Being born of a German immigrant, Sylvia Plath shares an eye-opening poem right before she ended her life in 1963. On October 12th, 1962, Plath wrote a poem called “Daddy.” In this poem, she portrays a speaker that expresses numerous feelings of hate and fear. Though most might think this word actually means father, in German “daddy” means “oh you”. Nevertheless, this poem relates to a person or father. After reading further, one might notice that she references Natzi’s and Jew’s, and uses many

In Sylvia Plath’s poem Lady Lazarus, she describes her sufferings and attempted suicides and compares them to those of the Jews in the holocaust. This comparison proves to be very controversial to many; people believe that is unethical to equate your own sufferings with those of the entire Jewish population during the holocaust. However, the comparison clearly gets her point across and allows audience to understand her sufferings by using something that everyday people are aware of. Many critics

Sylvia Plath once said “Let me live, love, and say it in good sentences.” Plath fulfilled this quote because she did write many “good sentences”, seen in her beautiful poetry and novels. Plath is a very distinguished and well known writer because of those good sentences. And her life was indeed filled with love, but also filled with tragedy and depression. Although Plath lived a short life, she wrote prolifically and used the tragedy in her life as inspiration. In fact, Sylvia Plath’s depression

Metaphors by Sylvia Plath was written in 1959. It is a lyric poem that uses metaphors to create a riddle, as she states in line one. Plath is using a narrator voice in her poetry to describe her pregnancy with the use of metaphors and her ambivalence to her current state. The narrator is mocking herself and I find her mocking tone to pregnancy as something I want to incorporate in my writing when writing about my character’s eating disorder. The poem starts with the narrator announcing herself

Daddy by Sylvia Plath is a confessional poem about a daughter's hatred and anger because she felt oppressed by her father for thirty years. Confessional poetry focuses on the inner expressions of conflict and emotion through the use of detail in the poet's life. Plath was nine when her father passed away and she was too young to get to know her father. Her father passed away because of a wound he received on his toe and since he was diabetic the wound eventually got infected and killed him. The young

Throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem “You’re” she addresses what her life is like as a pregnant women. This poem was written when she was pregnant with her first child so the emotions she was feeling were at full throttle. Through her use of similes and metaphors Plath is able to portray these first time emotions as excitement of a soon to be mother starts to grow. It is no secret that Sylvia Plath thought very highly of her soon to be child. There is no way however she can express this love in normal

Sylvia Plath is best known for “the intense coupling of violent or disturbed imagery with the playful use of alliteration and rhyme in her work.” (poets.org). “Daddy,” one of Plath’s poems is a way for her to express her life story and allow others to see into it. Living in an abusive home, she was torn down daily. She makes it clear that her father was a male-dominating, evil individual. By constantly being in this environment, it ultimately affected her work. “Daddy” was written only months before

Sylvia came into the world on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sylvia Plath had been writing since she was a child. She started writing by starting a journal. But when she was eight years her father died. Sylvia and her father did not have the best relationship. She said that he was a horrible father to her and compared him to the Nazis in her poem “Daddy”. In this poem she talked about hating her father and how she wanted him to die. She also wrote this poem to cope with the grief and

Discussing the father-daughter relationship in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The speaker of Syliva Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a woman who both passionately loves and hates her father. The love came from the speaker seeing her father as a God when she was a child, and the hate came from an intense, deep-rooted fear she felt towards her father, who completely dominated her life. The speaker of this poem is attempting to free herself from her father’s influence. The speakers father dies when she is only ten years