Parents and their children hold special bonds that they do not share with anyone else. The relationship between a farther and child is nothing that could be replaced with someone else. Once the farther is in an unhealthy relationship with their child it is almost impossible to fix the damage if the farther ever tries to fix it. In the poems Daddy and My Papa’s Waltz it shows how unhealthy relationships with a farther and their children take a mental toll on the children weather they are beating them or just simply not putting effort and being loving towards their child, the damage is all the same. In the poem Daddy by Sylvia Plath, has a negative contradicting tone throughout the poem. The narrator is expressing how he/she but one would amuse
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Here in this poem the narrator seems at first sending a happy message about them and their father, but the underlying truth is much darker. The narrator says things like “I hung on like death” and “you beat time on my head” all clear signs that there is something a little deeper the narrator seems to be hinting at very subtly. The father is an alcoholic you can tell right away within the first lines; “The whiskey on your breath; Could make a small boy dizzy.” That just shows right away that the father of the narrator is a drunk and reading further in and analyzing further you can see where the violence mixes in with the alcohol. “We romped until the pans; Slid from the kitchen self.” Sounds not to serious at first when you do not really think about it, but then with everything else that was stated you can see that this is not such a playful relationship as the narrator is trying to portray rather a quite violent and abusive relationship full. The narrator seems to be the way the are writing it in a playful manner crying out for help and wishing and living in a different mindset when all of this happening. The narrator is doing this to deal with the pain that the father is beating them and in a way showing how they wish the relationship actually was comparable to the sad reality. The physical violence shows that it does transfer into the mental aspect of abuse by the way the child reverts into their mind to deal with the physical
Here in this poem the narrator seems at first sending a happy message about them and their father, but the underlying truth is much darker. The narrator says things like “I hung on like death” and “you beat time on my head” all clear signs that there is something a little deeper the narrator seems to be hinting at very subtly. The father is an alcoholic you can tell right away within the first lines; “The whiskey on your breath; Could make a small boy dizzy.” That just shows right away that the father of the narrator is a drunk and reading further in and analyzing further you can see where the violence mixes in with the alcohol. “We romped until the pans; Slid from the kitchen self.” Sounds not to serious at first when you do not really think about it, but then with everything else that was stated you can see that this is not such a playful relationship as the narrator is trying to portray rather a quite violent and abusive relationship full. The narrator seems to be the way the are writing it in a playful manner crying out for help and wishing and living in a different mindset when all of this happening. The narrator is doing this to deal with the pain that the father is beating them and in a way showing how they wish the relationship actually was comparable to the sad reality. The physical violence shows that it does transfer into the mental aspect of abuse by the way the child reverts into their mind to deal with the physical