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    Sairo Kola Justin Grant ENC 1102: Writing about poetry 29 October 2014 Looking at “Daddy” In her poignant memoir‚ “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath deconstructs her childhood relationship with her father and applies it to her ongoing relationship with controlling‚ oppressive men. Through powerful metaphorical language and reference to Nazism‚ machines of war‚ and a focus on gloomy‚ dark colors‚ Plath displays her inability to cope and find structure in her life without the male abuse and mental subordination

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    Problems with men start at a young age for most women. Daddy issues is a perfect explanation for the piece “Daddy” written by Sylvia Plath. The complications that occurred early in Plath’s life then occurred in Plath’s love life. After doing some research on Plath‚ it was apparent that a continuing theme in her life was issues with men. To fully understand this piece I had to do some research on Plath. After researching‚ I was able to dig deeper into her life and what this poem meant to her. This

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    Sylvia Plath was born to middle class family in Massachusetts. Plath published her first poem when she was 8.She was bright‚ sensitive‚ was a perfectionist at everything she attempted. She was a brilliant kid‚ getting A grades in school‚ winning the top prizes. She was a model daughter. By 1950 when she joined Smith College she already had an remarkable list of publication. However Sylvia’s perfection was only superficial. Under this lay personal issues some of which probably were the result of

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    Essay Just like Sylvia Plath tries to illustrate her dislike towards Nazis in a very explicit way by saying “every woman adores a Fascist” as an irony- I think she intends to express another idea rather than the fact that she disliked Nazis or that her father resembled them. At a first glance‚ Sylvia Plath could be telling the world that all en have Nazi features in one way or another. The narrator of the poem has obviously had a terrible‚ severe and authoritarian father‚ even compared to

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    11 years old‚ Sylvia Plath‚ was an extraordinary girl with a troublesome mind. In 1962‚ shortly before her death Plath wrote one of her most significantly popular poems “Daddy”. This poem is about Path’s regards towards her father. It describes the relationship they had and how it affected her. Her fathers way of being did not only affect her during childhood but even after the day she got married to the end of her life. Upon reading‚ one can clearly imagine the way Sylvia Plath lived‚ and was burdened

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    symbols. The fact that the girl is herself "a bit of a Jew" and a bit of a German intensifies her emotional paralysis before the imago of an Aryan father with whom she is both connected and at enmity. Commenting on the persona in a BBC interview‚ Plath herself suggests that the two strains of Nazi and Jew unite in the daughter "and paralyze each other" so the girl is doubly incapacitated to deal with her sense of her father‚ both by virtue of her mixed ethnicity and her childish perspective. As the

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    Mushrooms by Silvia Plath Thinking/Talking Points: 1. a) They way the poem is written out is very unusual and interesting‚ which was already pointed out by you in class. When turning the page 90 degrees you may see something that looks similar to a field of mushrooms. Or when looking at the stanzas you can see that all of them are short (stanza with three short lines)‚ also the poem is consists of many stanzas which one could compare to the “typical” or ”standard” mushrooms you see

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    poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses many literary devices to illustrate her struggles for freedom in relationship‚ precisely with her father and husband. She uses heavy metaphors and dense allusion to create imagery of hatred towards her relationship between both men. It is important to know Plath’s historical background before readers dive into any of her artistic work. Sylvia had a very negative relationship with men in her life especially her father and husband. Slyvia’s father‚ Otto Plath passed

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    Daddy” Deconstruction Paper The poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath paints a great picture of a daughter and her Nazi father‚ but this poem is more than just that. It symbolizes the relationship that they once had‚ and how it has affected her throughout her whole life. This poem also shows a very generalized depiction of how women see men who have treated them not so greatly. Although Sylvia’s father was German‚ he was not a Nazi‚ which is how she depicted him in her poem “Daddy‚” She imagines her

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    Analysis: “Daddy” Sylvia Plath was a talented young woman born to a German father and Austrian-American mother. After the death of her father‚ she fell into a downward spiral of depression‚ revealing her talent as a poet. In the poem “Daddy”‚ Sylvia Plath uses intense diction‚ sporadic syntax‚ and a unique style of figurative language to express the resentment she feels toward her father. Throughout the poem‚ Plath’s German diction and sporadic syntax creates a morbid tone. Many of the words Plath uses

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