Series of Reconstruction
Life is a series of reconstruction. People will face many hardships in their life - hardships that will break them down and bring them to the abyss of despair. Despite this cruel reality, there is beauty, for these events present the opportunity for growth: the chance to put themselves back together and learn from the experience. Not everyone will be able to conquer these challenges, however, for countless are maimed from the adversities of life and left unequipped to deal with the continuous trials sent their way. Some are bound by shackles of the past and left unable to move forward in their life, and others are born to a life of grandeur, but descend …show more content…
She loses her father at a young age, and what memories left of him are melancholy, as she feels she never connected with her dad. She was fearful of him, and stuttered when she spoke to him – she even felt like a Jew to his German blood – yet she yearns to have her Daddy back, the father who she barely knew. This yearning dictates her life, and she marries into a toxic relationship not for love, but to fill the void of her lost father. Through countless heartache, an attempt of suicide, and a adulterous husband, she becomes aware she is unable to come to terms with her father’s death, and instead tries to sever the ties she had with her father in an attempt to move onwards from her halted life. Sharing the theme of being unable to move forward, “Like a Rolling Stone” is a poem about a woman who was born in to wealth and prides herself on this fact by perceiving herself to be above others who are lower in societies echelon; however, as if delivered retribution for her iniquitous beliefs, she becomes part of the commoners that she used to mock. She squandered her high-class education through excessive drinking, those who she used to laugh at, are now at equal standing, and every virtue she garnered in her life are no longer of use to her current standing. She is left lost and without direction from experiencing nothing in her life to prepare her for poverty, and in turn, she is unable to grow from her …show more content…
Plath wrote many of her poems, including “Daddy”, in a autobiographical manner where she expresses the sorrows that life thrusted upon her into works of poetry. From the overwhelming despair Plath was facing over her fathers death, a toxic marriage, and suicide attempts (Wikipedia contributors), she was able to yield an immensely powerful voice. She passionately expresses the memories of her father’s funeral and suicide attempt in this poem, saying, “I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you.” A grim reality that contorts from a feeling of sadness at her fathers death to a feeling of anger that he left her so young; this is emphasized as she ends the poem with “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through!” She is unable to move on after so many years, so she tries to sever the bond of her father that she yearned to have back in a desperate attempt to move on with her life. An emotional proclaim from a girl who is lost in life and unable to cope with her fathers death. “Like a Rolling Stone” also provides a powerful tone, but in a different method, as Dylan’s voice encompasses a vengeful ambiance towards the topic through song. The ballad portrays a wealthy girl’s descent into poverty in a spiteful, yet mocking manner through the repeating stanzas of “How does it Feel / How does it feel / To be without a home / Like a complete
Life is a series of reconstruction. People will face many hardships in their life - hardships that will break them down and bring them to the abyss of despair. Despite this cruel reality, there is beauty, for these events present the opportunity for growth: the chance to put themselves back together and learn from the experience. Not everyone will be able to conquer these challenges, however, for countless are maimed from the adversities of life and left unequipped to deal with the continuous trials sent their way. Some are bound by shackles of the past and left unable to move forward in their life, and others are born to a life of grandeur, but descend …show more content…
She loses her father at a young age, and what memories left of him are melancholy, as she feels she never connected with her dad. She was fearful of him, and stuttered when she spoke to him – she even felt like a Jew to his German blood – yet she yearns to have her Daddy back, the father who she barely knew. This yearning dictates her life, and she marries into a toxic relationship not for love, but to fill the void of her lost father. Through countless heartache, an attempt of suicide, and a adulterous husband, she becomes aware she is unable to come to terms with her father’s death, and instead tries to sever the ties she had with her father in an attempt to move onwards from her halted life. Sharing the theme of being unable to move forward, “Like a Rolling Stone” is a poem about a woman who was born in to wealth and prides herself on this fact by perceiving herself to be above others who are lower in societies echelon; however, as if delivered retribution for her iniquitous beliefs, she becomes part of the commoners that she used to mock. She squandered her high-class education through excessive drinking, those who she used to laugh at, are now at equal standing, and every virtue she garnered in her life are no longer of use to her current standing. She is left lost and without direction from experiencing nothing in her life to prepare her for poverty, and in turn, she is unable to grow from her …show more content…
Plath wrote many of her poems, including “Daddy”, in a autobiographical manner where she expresses the sorrows that life thrusted upon her into works of poetry. From the overwhelming despair Plath was facing over her fathers death, a toxic marriage, and suicide attempts (Wikipedia contributors), she was able to yield an immensely powerful voice. She passionately expresses the memories of her father’s funeral and suicide attempt in this poem, saying, “I was ten when they buried you. At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you.” A grim reality that contorts from a feeling of sadness at her fathers death to a feeling of anger that he left her so young; this is emphasized as she ends the poem with “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through!” She is unable to move on after so many years, so she tries to sever the bond of her father that she yearned to have back in a desperate attempt to move on with her life. An emotional proclaim from a girl who is lost in life and unable to cope with her fathers death. “Like a Rolling Stone” also provides a powerful tone, but in a different method, as Dylan’s voice encompasses a vengeful ambiance towards the topic through song. The ballad portrays a wealthy girl’s descent into poverty in a spiteful, yet mocking manner through the repeating stanzas of “How does it Feel / How does it feel / To be without a home / Like a complete