Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a poem that takes the reader through Plath’s life with an oppressive father. Through detailed‚ five-line stanzas she gives examples to compare her life to that of a Jew or to the lady that lived in a shoe. Plath uses visual imagery of a Nazi‚ in particular‚ Adolf Hitler to describe her father’s oppressive ways. The poem gives off a very weary perception of Plath fighting emotionally to get away from the life of silence and abuse. Moving deeper through Plath’s poem‚ she depicts
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Adam Kirsch has written that some of Plath’s works‚ like "Daddy"‚ are self-mythologizing and suggests that readers should not interpret the poem as a strictly "confessional"‚ autobiographical poem about her actual father. Sylvia Plath herself also did not describe the poem in autobiographical terms. When she introduced the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide‚ she described the piece in the third person‚ stating that the poem was about "a girl with an Electra complex [whose] father
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“Daddy” – Sylvia Plath (Poetry Analysis 1) Plath‚ best known for her confessional poetry is credited to have written the poem “Daddy” in the year‚ 1962. However‚ it was posthumously published in 1965. The use of explicit imagery throughout the poem reflects her style. Using the Holocaust as a metaphor‚ Plath gives the poem its much-intended nightmarish quality suggestive of her complex relationship with her father‚ Otto Plath. “Daddy” is almost potentially autobiographical in the sense that it
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language obscene / An engine‚ and engine / Chuffing me off like a Jew” (lines 30-32)This quote depicts the relationship that Plath had with her father. In Daddy‚ Plath depicts herself as a victim‚ as she compares herself to a Jew and her father as a Nazi. She uses this train metaphor to depict herself as a victimized Jew who is being taken away to a concentration camp. Plath uses allusions to describe her father as Hitler‚ as it is written “And your neat moustache / And your Aryan eyes‚ bright blue”
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成绩 Critical Analysis on “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath 课程名称 美国现代诗歌 授课教师 吴杨 院 系 应用英语学院 年级专业 二年级 比较文学与世界文学 姓 名 蘑丽得尔 学 号 136440903 时 间 2014/12/10 Critical Analysis on Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The poem has left on me a great impact. But not a good one‚ of course
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Sylvia Plath was known for not having a good relationship with her father Otto Plath. Otto died when Sylvia was eight years old (“Daddy”). She spent most of her life trying to come to terms with his influence on her life and her work (“Daddy”). The memory of her father haunted her for most of her life. Since she didn’t know much about him‚ he was a constant search in her mind. The purpose of this paper is to show and explain the idea that “Daddy” is Sylvia Plath’s way of killing the memory of her
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"Daddy"‚ one of Plaths most famous and detailed autobiographical poems‚ was written in the last years of her life and is saturated with suppressed anger and dark imagery. The sixteen stanza poem‚ through Plaths use of ambiguous symbolism‚ arguably is bitterly addressing Plaths father‚ who died when she was only eight‚ and her husband Ted Hughes‚ who had broken her "pretty red heart in two" (st.12‚ line 1). The poem is intense with once suppressed emotion‚ setting an aggressive‚ desperate‚ almost
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Sylvia Plath’s poem ‘Daddy’ expresses the struggle for female identity by basing it around the Holocaust‚ one of the most gruesome‚ immoral events in the whole of history. Plath uses this event as a metaphor for her struggles in life‚ and the struggles of women in general for independence. The male figure used in this poem is in the shape of Hitler‚ a man of unfathomable evil. In this poem‚ ‘Daddy’ is seen as a Hitler figure during the metaphor of the Holocaust. He is seen as oppressing the female
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Sylvie Plath’s “Daddy” explores the power imbalance of gender relations and the negative effects of oppression on women in a male-dominated society. The speaker’s portrayal of the patriarchal system as her “daddy” describes the infinite power enforced through hegemony on women and how women are “chuffed up as Jews” into slavery‚ suppression and loss of self-identity. The use of child discourse with words like “achoo” and “gobbledygoo” portrays the speaker as having a child-like innocence which ironically
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Sylvia Plath’s poem "Daddy" portrays her love and hate relationship with her own father. At first glance‚ the poem almost spits vivid words of rage and hate toward her father; but even on the second reading the very structure of the poem‚ as well as a few word choices betray the love she feels for him. This creates a warring duality and she herself the views this unresolved relationship as the root of her misery. The very title of the poem Daddy contradicts the face value of the poem as a whole
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