The influences on a troubled Plath
The family life of Sylvia Plath from childhood to adulthood has a huge impact on the author during her years in writing poetry, including “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”. The author uses vivid imagery and depressing verbiage to make the reader wonder what kind of life difficulties did the author endure to place the characters in a place that was full of pain and suffering. This paper will examine the influences that played a part on the work of Sylvia Plath such as personality, historical events, the personal life events that took place and the uses of symbolism, metaphors and themes to portray and compare her personal pain to be more relatable to her readers.
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In this poem the title is a bit ironic as you read through the verses. The poem seems to be written as an evil and demented nursery rhyme to show that the victimization began when the author was of a young age and to show that there was a lot of pain during that time frame. “According to Peter Sacks the frequent use of repeated sounds and patterns is a similar tactic to Freud’s theory “Fort-da” a game that children play to try and master their anxiety attack during a time of parent separation. The style of the authors writing of repeated use of /oo/ sounds imply a sign of incomplete and desired need to end the mourning of the father “(Platizky page 2). Which leads the reader to believe this is a poem of mourning of the passing of the father who passed away back in 1940 when the author was a child. After reading “Daddy” over and over it makes sense that the author uses these comparisons to make her pain more relatable to others or for others to understand how much pain is afflicted on her by using the holocaust imagery and representing the narrator in the poem as a
The family life of Sylvia Plath from childhood to adulthood has a huge impact on the author during her years in writing poetry, including “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus”. The author uses vivid imagery and depressing verbiage to make the reader wonder what kind of life difficulties did the author endure to place the characters in a place that was full of pain and suffering. This paper will examine the influences that played a part on the work of Sylvia Plath such as personality, historical events, the personal life events that took place and the uses of symbolism, metaphors and themes to portray and compare her personal pain to be more relatable to her readers.
From a young age author Sylvia Plath had a passion …show more content…
In this poem the title is a bit ironic as you read through the verses. The poem seems to be written as an evil and demented nursery rhyme to show that the victimization began when the author was of a young age and to show that there was a lot of pain during that time frame. “According to Peter Sacks the frequent use of repeated sounds and patterns is a similar tactic to Freud’s theory “Fort-da” a game that children play to try and master their anxiety attack during a time of parent separation. The style of the authors writing of repeated use of /oo/ sounds imply a sign of incomplete and desired need to end the mourning of the father “(Platizky page 2). Which leads the reader to believe this is a poem of mourning of the passing of the father who passed away back in 1940 when the author was a child. After reading “Daddy” over and over it makes sense that the author uses these comparisons to make her pain more relatable to others or for others to understand how much pain is afflicted on her by using the holocaust imagery and representing the narrator in the poem as a