Daddy Poetry Analysis Essay Outline

Poetry Analysis Essay Outline

Imagery & Conflict
Daddy Poems
Underline thesis and circle examples and lines. Concrete examples.

Sylvia – Daddy
Imagery:

“a bag full of God” (this was possibility a representation of how she saw her father or how her father saw himself)

“Gray toe” (once you die your body slowly decays and loses colour, such as how the words are placed like gray toe to show death, represent death)

“The tongue stuck in my jaw. It stuck in a barb wire snare.” (This part is heavy imagery and shows that she couldn’t speak, she was caught on her own words and it was like barbed wire on her, a similar situation”

“Any less the black man who bit my pretty red heart in two.” (Extremely dark and grotesque imagery. Paints a picture of
It shows that his youth was very unpleasant and that he felt trapped without any way out)

“each blink, each thought, a cul-de-sac, a point-of-view filled with cracks” (This creates a different type of imagery where the reader infers that everything the speaker did was basically like a dead end, there was one way in and one way out so he did things mechanically and his point-of-view to life in general was filled with cracks since his father left. He was absent of clear vision to the world around him)

“twenty years later you drifted by, and I saw a cloudy forecast in the sky” (this shows that after several years without his father he finally came around on and it wasn’t a good thing, hence the diction used by the writer “a cloud forcast in the sky”)

“I once carved your name into a pew, a catholic boy’s graffiti” (although this part is more referenced to religious paradox due to the “catholic boy’s graffiti” it is also an instance of imagery because the speaker creates an image of a child in the church carving his father’s name “an S.O.S for the needy”