The Real Analysis of “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was a gifted but troubled poet known for disturbing style of her work. Plath wrote the poem, “Daddy,” stanzas of emotional, psychological and historical thoughts. The poem was filled with regret and over time was analyzed and critiqued differently. The best critique, “From Protean Poetic: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath,” was written by Mary Lynn Broe and emphasizes the most adequate, textual evidence of the poem, “Daddy.” Broe begins her critique by justifying that Plath creates a mock poetic exorcism of the events that happened throughout her life. Broe’s main claim points out Plath’s stupidity, progress and comedy relief of her famous poem, “Daddy.” Broe puts forth supportive, textual evidence that persuades the audience of this claim.
“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” and “Good Country People” are two great works created by created. Within these two works of literature she has a similar/reoccurring theme of the Salvation or Redemption of the protagonist in response to the evils committed by villains who have no belief. she uses some similar elements of the two stories and some very different. Exploring the characters, conflicts and symbolism of the two stories this paper hopes to reveal perhaps some new level of understanding towards these two works of literature. On the surface the protagonists of the two stories, Hulga and the Grandmother don’t seem like very similar people, one is a Grandmother, a lady, as she calls herself, who looks back fondly (almost too fondly) on days gone when people were nicer and a good man was easier to find.
Some poems are shown from a male perspective, and some aren’t. “Anne Hathaway” is not shown from the male perspective but it in fact shown from the perspective of how she felt as a person when she was with William Shakespeare, this differs this poem from the rest of the poems as most are either a mockery of the love shared between a couple, and the others are about how the husbands didn’t compromise well enough – leading to change and unrequited love. An example of a poem not being the key/highlight of the collection is “Mrs Darwin”. This poem can be interpreted in however way possible – with the most obvious interpretation being a poem about the mockery of Darwin by Mrs Darwin. It doesn’t sum up the love Anne Hathaway showed in the poem that is reflected in all other poems, but just the humour of the relation Darwin had with his wife.
The reader can defiantly tell she did not want to marry Tom; we can also go deeper into the novel and notice the note and begin to assume she loved Gatsby by the way she clutched the letter while in tears. This absolutely detracts from her innocent character Fitzgerald has positioned her as. The reader can again see another side of Mrs. Buchanan when her daughter Pammy is introduced in the novel. Daisy
In Anne Bradstreet’s case it was opposite she went from “riches to rags” and her “financial situation” was ruined. In another part of the poem Bradstreet states that she accepts that her “goods” that lay in the dust did not belong to her for they belonged to “him” which is referring to God. This also ties in with the Puritanism from the “The Mythic Foundation of the New World and Notes on Colonial America” because in that section of the reading it states that “that what happens to you, good or bad, happens because God wants it and causes it to happen.” In line 29 through 32 Bradstreet began reminiscing about the memories the house held that none of the happy occurrences would ever happen again Bradstreet states “under thy roof no guest shall sit/ nor at thy table eat a bit/ no pleasant talk shall ‘ere be told/ nor things recounted done of old”. This statement emphasis that there is an emotional attachment to people’s possessions and that house become sacred. This also symbolizes warmth, security, family, and comfort.
Edson constructs her protagonist to flow parallel to John Donne’s philosophies, resurrecting the metaphysics he made timeless. The body encompasses the metaphysical emotions that humans experience. The particular concern of death is paramount to the work John Donne has written. In ‘Death be not Proud’ Donne personifies death, humiliating its existence ‘Death shall not be proud.’ The 17th Century poet claims Death to be insignificant, thus telling his audience that it should not be feared. It is here that Donne rejects the medieval ideals of death being daunting.
The poet conveys her poetry to having a spouse that is not physically present, the love she shares with her husband “upon public employment”, and the love of being a full time mother. In Anne Bradstreet’s poems, she portrays the undesirable feelings she held within towards the absence of her husband, but also expresses the love she has for him upon his nonappearance and her desirable love for her children. In the era Anne Bradstreet existed in, women were more respected as stay at home mothers and caretakers rather education investors and becoming people of high stature. Anne Bradstreet was the wife of a well-accomplished and known politician and was obligated to commit to any tribulations to further appear within her commitment to her husband. In “A Letter to Her Husband, Absent upon Public Employment” the poet refers to her husband as the sun “My sun is gone so far in’s zodiac”.
How does Plath explore destructive relationships in Daddy and Tulips? Destructive relationships were a weak point in Plath’s life, as she was constantly disappointed by the relationships she had with others, such as that between her mother, father, husband and child. Her poems, which are partly stimulated by them, particularly ‘Daddy’ and ‘Tulips’, are a powerful source of ‘murderous art’, where she was able to expose her bitterness and resentment towards them. She uses recurring imagery associated with the three protagonists in her life, and poetry in attempt of breaking free from the chains of a ‘tortured mind of the heroine’. Plath’s gift of recreating her past experiences in a complex form, so as to remove them from her present, started to seem like an obsession, within which her poems show a regular pattern of self-centredness.
Fate and Anglo-Saxon Poetry Anglo-Saxon poetry demonstrates how fate can inconveniently intervene in lives. As demonstrated in “The Seafarer,” “The Wanderer,” and “The Wife’s Lament” fate leads people down different ‘rabbit holes’ all of the time. In Anglo-Saxon poetry fate plays an important part, fate leads people to seek out new adventures as well as the chance of self discovery. The world of Anglo-Saxon poetry features views about Christianity and that the after life exists, as well as what emotions the original authors were feeling at the time. In Anglo-Saxon poetry, fate ultimately is a test of finding home and working to get there.
Christine Payne Professor Seaton Comp II-ENG 1020-W02 1/09/11 Paper 2 Enjoy Literature by Getting to Know the Author Emily Dickinson’s “Oh Sumptuous Moment” and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s “Clothes” have deep connections to the personal lives of the authors. Dickinson’s poem has an underlying message of rebellion against her father who was “temperamentally as well as culturally a remote and grim patriarch” (Martin, 46). Dickinson writes, “That I may gloat on thee” (l. 3) in which the word “gloat” is a clue that the poem is directed at a specific person who tried to keep her from experiencing such a joyous moment. Divakaruni develops the characters of “Clothes” based on her experiences with people both in her native country of India as well as Indian immigrants in America. The protagonist, Sumita, is a young woman in India who goes through an arranged marriage and moves to America with her new husband.