Faris Jalalluddin Professor Burnett English 1270 7 March 2012 Poem In the 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
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In both literary pieces‚ the fathers have been denominated as barbaric males that had created a dysfunctional relationship upon their children. In the case of “Daddy‚” Plath creates an environment enriched with violence and frightening. Through the poem‚ the father is being envisioned in terms of his dominance‚ cruelty‚ and authoritarianism. She compares the relationship with her father resembling the Holocaust/victim analogy‚ making him a Nazi and herself a Jew; which helps her in the dramatization
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The first twelve stanzas of the poem reveal the extent of the speaker’s possession by what‚ in psychoanalytic terms‚ is the imago of the father—a childhood version of the father which persists into adulthood. This imago is an amalgamation of real experience and archetypal memories wherein the speaker’s own psychic oppression is represented in the more general symbol of the Nazi oppression of the Jews. For example‚ the man at the blackboard in the picture of the actual father is transformed symbolically
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patriarchal dominance” (Wester). Kenan is known for his elaborate use of race and sexuality in his stories. He enjoys to write about his own personal experience because he is a homosexual African American man. In the story The Foundations of the Earth by Randall Kenan‚ he decides to give his readers insight on the current dilemma of someone being in the same situation. For example‚ The Foundations of the Earth tells a story about a black woman named Maggie Williams. Maggie struggles to believe that her own
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Conflicting Emotions of Sylvia Plath The speaker in the poem “Daddy” is someone who both fiercely hates her father but also passionately loves him. When she was younger‚ she compared her father to a god-like entity—always looking up to him and constantly seeking his approval. Her fierce hate towards her father stems from the deep rooted fear of him. The speaker is torn between these two polar emotions that have been constantly tormenting her and blames them on her unresolved emotions toward her
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“Writing is the painting of the voice” -Voltaire. Writing since she was 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
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Rei had just woken up from a nap. Her mother made her take even tho dad insisted on not rei was a major daddys girl. She was starving and she showed you could see it on her face so her parents made her a pb in j wich was her favorite. After she gobbled it down she looked out the window and saw her best friend her only friend his name was ruku he was telling her to come outside with the wave of his hands it looked urgent he also looked frightened he was always such scaredy cat. So rei looked up at
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My Daddy was an insurance salesman and our family moved every few years‚ always living in the South. Many towns clumped together and our stability became the culture of the South. My aunts and uncles scattered from west Tennessee to Mississippi and our yearly vacations and holidays turned into adventures in their company. Geographically‚ my world appeared small‚ but I had no idea. We swam and fished at Reelfoot Lake - muddy and full of cypress trees. Where we swam a sign read‚ THE BEACH - in my
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The poem “Daddy” was written in 1962. Sylvia Plath discusses her love/hate for father and others using imagery from the Holocaust‚ Nazis‚ and vampires. The title of the poem suggests that it is loving and intimate‚ more so than if it were titled “Father”. That is where love is present. Hate and anger are present everywhere else in the poem. Sylvia Plath’s father died when she was eight years old due to complications of diabetes (Steinberg 2007). He is already dead; Sylvia Plath wrote this poem
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In the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson multiple aspects are used together to emphasize different moods in the book. Two examples of this are panal usage and action to action panel transitions. Action to action panel transition is a type of transition that shows a subject’s progression of only an action. Multiple panels showing the progression of an action would be considered an action to action transition. A panel is a visual representation of parts of a story in a graphic novel. Depending
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