Essays on Sylvia Plath: Poems

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  • Analysis of Daddy

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    The first two stanzas of the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath are deceptively simple and sound more like a strange nursery rhyme than an angry depiction of the speakers father An analysis of the straight rhyme scheme in Daddy by Sylvia Plath lulls the reader into a hypnotic state and the language is relatively free from the kind of ominous and dark imagery and terms that will arrive as the poem by Sylvia Plath progresses This nursery rhymes innocence is obliterated quickly with each and with the imag

  • Commentary on Lady Lazarus

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    Lazarus of Bethany is the subject of a miracle recounted in the Bible where Jesus restores Lazarus to life after four days of being dead Plath sees herself as the female Lazarus who has been raised from the dead three times and thus a miracle Like the sense of miracle Plath sees her deaths like Lazaruss for they dont fall into the category of usual deaths Sylvia Plath completed her masterpiece Lady Lazarus in the days before her suicide in 1963 while in a condition of disturbance suffering and

  • Explication of Daddy

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    Sylvia Plath uses her poem Daddy to express intense emotions towards her fathers life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten at a time when she still adored him unconditionally Then she gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her father and compares him to a Nazi a devil and a vampire Later the conflict of this relationship continues with her husband which led to a short and painful marriage I

  • Literary Devices in Daddy

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    Sylvia Plath uses her poem Daddy to express intense emotions towards her fathers life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten at a time when she still adored him unconditionally Then she gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her father and compares him to a Nazi a devil and a vampire Later the conflict of this relationship continues with her husband which led to a short and painful marriage I

  • Personal Commentary on Daddy

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  • Perspective and Context in Daddy

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  • Women in Daddy

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    Women Woman Today a modern dictionary would define this word as the female counterpart of the human species a random person on the street may say something like female person or the opposite sex of a man However a century ago the meaning was quite different Most definitions or opinions would contain the words simple minded beauty or servant to man none of which clearly depict a human being These definitions could be pieced together to come up with some kind of creature owned by man that should

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