The Characteristics Of A Poem Essay By Sylvia Plath

As stated above, some teenagers do have a problem to build the relationship with their parents. As she said in the poem, attempting suicide took place regularly when she was ten. Even though, Sylvia Plath did not mentioned her mother in the poem, the reader can found there is a something wrong with her mother. She did not say one word about her mother like the poem, Daddy. She does not have a companion to share her feelings, she does not have a supporter who could stop her first or second suicide attempt while she get accustomed to try to kill herself “like the cat.” This causes the reader to speculate that she might failed to bond with her mother from an early age.

Sylvia Plath contrasts the symbolism of the Nazi and the Jews, to signify the characteristics of her father and herself and the social problems. She uses the word, “the Nazi” to describe her father’s authoritative and coercive manner. In contrast, she uses “the Jews” to portray the powerlessness of man toward her father. In a broad

In the poem, she criticizes sharply people attitude which they belittle one’s death. “The peanut-crunching crowd” (“Plath” 26) is depicted as the crowds who are looking on with folded arms. The crowds, considered her suicidal attempt like a “strip tease” with a piecemeal approach to understanding her problem. They are just watching her life as a spectacle. Her anguish and hardship had gone from the center ring to the freak show. Uncannily, the crowd’s contemplative view on her life clashes the way everyone looked at the Holocaust. Since some people think the Holocaust occurred in the distant past, the people treat the Holocaust as simple fact form ancient history. Sylvia Plath gives warning of dangerous as people see tragic affairs as an interests and gossips: Vile and barbaric acts such as “Poke” and “stir” someone’s miserable scars are bad as a