In addition, Sylvia Plath employs imagery to present her mother to the readers as a sadistic woman who readily accepts her husband's death. Plath's poems convey her feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, hopelessness, and anger at her mother. Plath often referred to her mother's greatest sin was forcing her children, including Sylvia, to stay home from her husband's funeral. This action only deepened the deep seeded hatred for her mother, causing Plath to believe this was a tell-tale sign of her mother's
empowerment describes a woman’s struggle to break from societal bounds. Liberations can manifest as words or actions made to reinstate one's rights and control. These efforts are in the narrating persona of Melissa Febos “Whip Smart,” as well as Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy." These works depict fights against oppression by particular males, as well as against the systematic oppression of patriarchal society. In both cases, the narrators achieve personal empowerment employing their mastery of literature to reverse
For the following essay I chose to debate the thesis in the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath. Plath is the speaker of the poem and lost her father at the age of ten when she still though highly of him. As time goes on she sees that her father had an oppressive dominance over her and compares him to a Nazi and a devil. The conflict that she had with her father eventually pours over in a short and painful marriage. Plath has feelings of hatred towards her father and husband. She allows the reader to feel
Latina/Latino Poetry, and Asian American Poetry. Upon reflecting ten questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s work entitled, “Eating Alone”; Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man”; Evelyn Avery’s quote about Bernard Malamud’s Ethnic Writings; Beverly Lyon Clark’s
Zeena, initially lively, became increasingly lost to hypochondria and bouts of silence. The effect is to gradually make the reader feel just as oppressed as the main characters in the novel, we too have “been in Starkfield too many winters.” While Plath’s poetry is arguably a dark embodiment of America as the home and great power symbolic of America’s fight for independence which reflects her rejection of Patriarchy and the domestic through her writings. The first line of Lesbos, Plath positions the