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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As a prosperous‚ admired poet‚ Sylvia Plath considered her obsession with death and her failure of self-repair as an art form that she expressed through poetry. Due to the continuous disloyalty resulting in betrayal that Plath received throughout her life she repeatedly designated herself the role as a victim in a majority of her poems. This gives evidence in saying that Sylvia Plath was a troubled woman trying to deal with her dark nature that is shown in several poems that she wrote‚ specifically
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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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me/Slapping its phantom laundry in my face.’ The personification of the wind makes it come alive and the word ‘slapping’ is particularly explosive. It suggests that the wind is being harsh towards her. The word phantom shows death imagery. The ‘sudden wind could refer to the death of her father or perhaps the sudden discovery of her husband’s affair. This abruptness is supported by the following line because the phrase “a slap in the face” can be used to imply the element of surprise. The lake in
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bomb blowing up in your face. She was pushing on the friable edge risking that it just might break. She was locked into a closed world where there was no way out. After mindfully setting out the children’s breakfast‚ she opened the oven door and placed a folded white cotton cloth on the inside. She gently lowered herself to the floor and carefully laid her head inside the oven. She turned on the cooking gas‚ but did not move her
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Sylvia Plath was born in Massachusetts in October of 1932. She was and still is one of the most renowned writers of the twentieth century. She started producing poetry at the young age of eight. Her inspiring poems have awarded her with a Pulitzer Prize‚ which is a huge honor for any writer. “Metaphors”‚ which was written in 1959‚ is a poem with obvious‚ but hidden meaning. It is a very short poem‚ with only nine lines. She also uses only nine syllables in each line. A bunch of other subliminal messages
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mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days" (Sylvia Plath from famous poets). Sylvia Plath‚ a true icon in the literary world‚ comes from a broken background which serves to further explain the path her life eventually took. While events from the formidable childhood years of Sylvia Plath set her up for struggles during and after college‚ The Bell Jar and Holocaust poetry continue to provide the basis for understanding Plath the author and intrigue critics to this day. "I
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In the short story‚ “Initiation”‚ Sylvia Plath utilizes Millicent and the sorority girls to imply the theme that conformity for popularity is not better than being one’s own self. Following Millicent through the hazing period or ‘initiation’ of a sorority-like high school social group‚ the reader witnesses Plath’s changing of the character. In the beginning of the story‚ Plath describes the protagonist in the basement of a house‚ detailing how it felt “dark and warm‚ like the inside of a sealed jar”(1)
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Sylvia Plath’s poetry appeals to many for many reasons. The poet explores many real life situations through her poetry which makes it very relatable to her readers. The poet also expresses her feelings and inner thoughts through vivid images‚ which often contrast‚ to show how powerful they really are. Plath demonstrates this type of poetry in poems such as Child and Mirror. Plath writes about many personal experiences‚ for example in the poem Morning Song she expresses the moments her child was
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The use of Personification and Metaphor in ‘Mirror’ In the Poem ‘Mirror’ by Sylvia Plath‚ there is a continuing theme of change. In the beginning the changes are simple‚ like the acts of day turning to night‚ but at the end we see the life changes of a woman in particular. Through the use of metaphor and personification in the poem‚ Plath creates images of water‚ reflections‚ and colors as having human characteristics to emphasize the strong theme of change throughout the poem. From the beginning
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