In the poem, “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath shows her character to have a love for her father as well as an obvious sense of resentment and anger towards him. She sets the tone through the structure of the poem along with her use of certain diction, imagery, and metaphors/similes. The author, Sylvia Plath, chooses words that demonstrate the characters hatred and bitterness towards the oppression she is living with under the control of her father and later, her husband. Plath’s word choice includes many words

Leaving Daddy The house, all bricks and windows silhouetted by the moon, dwindled to the size of Legos as we pulled onto the freeway. I crouched on the back seat of Momma's green sedan, knees tucked under me, facing backwards with my arms folded under my chin. Cheryl, her body tucked into a ball next to me, folded her sweater between her head and the door to soften the rocking of the car. On my left was Doug, his head lolled back onto the seat and his eyes staring at the ceiling, black hair

Dear Daddy, I am really not quite sure where to begin. Over the past eight years I have thought of a million things I'd like to say to you, but due to the finality of death, I had to let them slip from my mind. Now that I am finally writing to you, I find myself tongue tied and timid, like when I was little and we went to Disney world and I finally got to meet Mickey Mouse. Remember? I was so excited all day long waiting, to go to meet him, chattering on and on, but when the big moment came, I

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Sylvia Plath’s jarring poem ‘Daddy’, is not only the exploration of her bitter and tumultuous relationship with her father, husband and perhaps the male species in general but is also a strong expression of resentment against the oppression of women by men and the violence and tyranny men can and have been held accountable for. Within the piece, the speaker creates a figurative image of her father by using metaphors to describe her relationship with him: “Not God but a Swastika” , he is a “… brute”

The authoritarian father from Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”, the Nazi imagery from Plath’s “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”, and marriage defining a woman’s worth and the departure from marriage in Joni Mitchell’s “Song for Sharon” expose the oppression of women. Through these images of oppressive masculinity, women can be led to suicide in more than just the physical sense. Throughout “Daddy”, Plath alludes to her intimidated childhood image of her father and her psychic oppression that is represented by the

Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a rollercoaster full of emotion. At first, the poem sounds similar to a nursery rhyme; one in particular called “Hickory Dickory Dock”. In lines one and two, the speaker says, “You do not do, you do not do / Any more, black shoe”. The speaker uses a sing-song way of speaking. The structure of the poem is comprised in sixteen five-lined stanzas. Plath wrote the poem in quintains with an irregular meter and irregular rhyme. She uses hard sounds, short lines, and repeated

In the poem “daddy by Sylvia Plath, the speaker characterizes her father indirectly by using figures of speech. Sylvia Plath uses a series of changing and evolving metaphors, about the speaker’s father to describe him. I believe that Sylvia is the speaker of the poem. . The speaker gives an overall impression that her father is oppressive and cruel, although he misses him. Her father’s oppression has lasted even after his death. The speaker uses the simile, “black shoe In which I have lived like