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unbreakable bond. Especially a father and daughter relationship, that is how we got the saying “Daddy’s Little Girl.” In the two poems “Daddy” written by Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz written by Theodore Roethke we see how each poet expresses their parental relationships in their poems. “Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time.” (Sylvia 1-2) In the poem, “Daddy” we are introduced to the speaker/narrator and their father's relationship. Comparing him to Hitler and the Devil we assume

Sylvia Plath was the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1982,and she is well known for her poems “daddy”. Sadly Plath committed suicide,but before she killed herself she left a note for one of her neighbors to tell them to get a doctor and when they found her she was lying in the oven with wet towels covering the door so her children wouldn't die from the gas to. Plath’s husband Hughes published most of her poems or novels that weren’t published because she had committed suicide at such an

intimidation are present, a deep hatred rises up and nothing is peaceful. In Sylvia Plath's poem “Daddy”, a complicated relationship between a father and daughter is displayed. Plath’s poem describes the strained nature of the relationship between the speaker and her father due to the overpowering personality of her parent. The speaker goes into detail about her affection, yet ever present hatred, for her father. Sylvia Plath uses various examples of figurative language, tone, and diction to showcase

Reflections The poem “The Mirror” is told from an interesting perspective. In this poem the story is being told from the point of view of the mirror itself. The author uses personification to bring the mirror to life. It tells us what it sees and how it perceives things. The first stanza of the poem is intriguing and optimistic as the mirror describes itself. The mirror is “silver and exact” (L 1) alluding that it is perfect, and makes no mistakes. It will show exactly what it sees with no bias

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

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.” (The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 2000) American poet Sylvia Plath (October 27 1932 – February 11 1963) was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Her semi-autobiographical writing style pioneered the postmodernist form of poetry known commonly as ‘Confessional Poetry’, which emerged from the United State in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s

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

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 to conjures the struggle that many women face in a male dominated society.

The morning song ‘Morning song’ by Sylvia Plath describes the birth, early stages of childhood and the sentimental value of a child in a very unique way. This poem was wrote from Sylvia Plath’s own experience of child birth, it can also be related to by parents, it could be thought it is aimed mainly at females as this poem is quite feminine. This eighteen line lyrics is structured in 3 line stanzas which are called tersest. It is a tender poem and the overall tone of it is quite mellow. The opening

Plath’s use of metaphor is effective in highlighting her depressive state, Plath often used metaphors frequently and used them as a contrast to her own reality. Through Plath’s poetry, we understand that she was conflicted about being a woman and often viewed the world with a very childlike mindset. Plath’s poem “The Munich Mannequins”, is a poem which floats between two images of womanly barrenness through the image of anonymous mannequins to the hotels of Munich where the occupants are just as