"Daddy" By Sylvia Plath
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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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"Daddy" By Sylvia Plath
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
Daddy
I chose Sylvia Plath's two poems "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" to write about because I felt they were the most powerful poems we read in class this semester, Sylvia Plath uses powerful language, imagery irony and symbols that make for interesting poems the leave you wanting to read them again. They seem to be autobiographical as I later learned, reading more about her on the internet which made it all the more interested to analyze for me. In the poem " Daddy "she speaks of trying to free herself from the dead memory of her father. Plath describes the immense power her father has had over her entire life, even after death. The author uses the metaphor of her inability to let go of her father's influence, to living in a black shoe in which she has been a foot unable to barely breath for thirty years. This poem is dark and angry as Plath expresses her feelings of hate towards her father and later on her husband. In spite of the negative imagery and language used in this poem, underneath it all Plath does reveal her sadness for not being able to know her father and to have her father in her life. She feels a bit cheated like she did not have enough time with him since he died when she was barely ten, in spite of the fact that he might of not been the nicest man as she describes him. This is showed in stanza twelve as she talks of her attempt to commit suicide at twenty, to try to get back to her father. She says "I thought even the bones would do". This poems seems more of an emotional declaration of independence, which she accomplishes as the end of the poem to the male figures in her life.
In the beginning of the poem we get the sense by Plath's language that she is declaring her independence from her father and saying that she is no longer the little girl who used to pray for him. She has had to kill him she says, before she had time. These first few lines, sound...
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