Close- Reading of a Literary Text: Metaphors by Sylvia Plath At the time this poem was written, it was a standard practice for women to grow up, get married, and have a family. They weren’t encouraged to get an education or a job and they certainly didn’t abstain from having children. Most women accepted their fate as a caregiver and mother, with the exception of a few, including the speaker of this poem. This speaker, for reasons unknown, be it financial or emotional, conformed to the status quo
an audience with the intent to make the one questioned think of what its hidden meaning could be without the author explicitly offering its true meaning. In Sylvia Plath’s “Metaphors”, Plath opens her piece presenting her riddle to the audience in the form of a short poem. As the title suggests, the whole poem as a whole is a mixed metaphor. A central idea explored in this poem is the speaker’s overall attitude regarding the solution of the riddle, which is a woman’s mentality and feelings towards
accidental, may have been exactly what Sylvia Plath wanted to distract her from the gripes of her battle with depression. In the first half of “Cut,” Plath uses diction with light connotation to describe an event that is not often seen as a pleasurable experience. In a frenzy of excitement followed by remorse caused by the of cutting her finger, Plath uses vivid tactile and visual imagery in combination with historical allusion in the form of overlapping metaphors to convey the experience of detachment
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
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
Patricia Krueger English 102 11/23/14 Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath has been viewed as one of the most captivating poets of 20th century. Many of her poetry was written with common themes of pregnancy, motherhood and the rejection of what society believed a women’s role was in creating the facade of a perfect family. Sylvia Plath explores such topics as personal and feminine identity, pregnancy and motherhood through her writings of confessional poetry, with the use of a conflicted tone towards the
“Daddy” Wasn’t Much of a Daddy In Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” the author uses metaphors to present a figurative image of how much she resents and feels trapped around her father and husband. The author creates an evil tone to help the reader feel and understand what she has felt while being in the presence of the one’s she once loved. The poem also acts as revenge for the author because she claims that she has killed her father and the man she has made out to be her father, which is her husband
Anne Sexton Anne Sexton, born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet. She was born November 9th, 1928, in Newton, Massachusetts, and died October 4th, Weston, Massachusetts, at the age of 45. She was known for being a confessional poet, in which she wrote primarily about her struggles with depression, suicidal tendencies and mania. She had won a Pulitzer Prize for her book of poetry, called Live Or Die, in 1967. Sexton started writing poetry while attending Rogers Hall, a preparatory school for
“Death sits on my shoulder like a crow... like a judge… like a dark angel…”. This quote from “Half-Hanged Mary” is a symbol of what people felt about themselves and their verdict they had at this point and time in their life. In “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, “Half-Hanged Mary” by Margaret Atwood, and in the cartoon “It’s okay… we’re hunting Communist” by Herb Block all show that a society under stress will always have a scapegoat. The people in these pieces of literature are a perfect representation
1302 7 April 2015 Analyst to Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” The poem “Daddy,” by Sylvia Plath, is about a daughter, the speaker of the poem, the speaker is expressing her feeling toward her father. She is angry with him for not being there for her and leaving her when she was a child. The poem takes place in many different symbolic places. Sylvia Plath in her poem, “Daddy,” uses many symbols and her tone toward the story, to show how the speaker feels about her father. Plath starts out with her poem with