I have chosen to write a comparative literature essay. Writing a comparative essay allowed me to engage in the close reading of literary texts, and understand how the literary devices are used to convey the poet’s purpose. Reading through the resources given from teachers, and analyzing the poems on my own, broadened my analytical skill especially on the poetries which used to be my weakness. Also, writing comparative essay also led me to have in depth understanding of how the literary devices have effects on the readers.
The poet is can be analyzed through various aspects. The simple base idea like “Content”, “Aim” and “Theme”, can be talked and should be linked throughout the analysis, but the analysis of literary devices such as imagery …show more content…
“The Minotaur” by Ted Hughes; published in 1998, is one explicit example that shows Hughes’s utilization of poetic devices in order to show the complexity of factors that led to his tragedy-like relationship with Sylvia Plath. “The Minotaur” is written after the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, which was written on 1962, shortly before her death. Interestingly, these two poems share a single theme which is “family and relationship”, moreover, they both have used literary techniques to influence the meaning conveyed by the readers and successfully allow the portrayal of their conflicting perspectives in the …show more content…
As an example, in second stanza, her father is described as ‘a bag full of God” and a “Ghastly statue”. This strong juxtaposition of God and Ghastly statue ultimately shows how important her father was to her life; he is like her god, like a compass of life, but also is a cruel dictator of her life. As it shows, the diction used to illustrate her father constantly shifts between admiring and cruel, and therefore portrays her conflicting feelings. Following this, Plath also uses allusion to enforce the victimization. For example: her description of the relationship later in the poem: “not God but a swastika” manipulates the image of a Jew and Nazi during the World War II in the reader. Her fear overpowers her and the inability to be free of her father dominates her love, and turns it to a deep hatred just like in the perspectives of the Jews. Also, her illustration of her father “your mustache and your Aryan eye”, brings the historical allusion of Hitler, creates powerful victimization of her. However, the speaker still shows her conflict of love and hate for her father, especially in the eleventh stanza: “Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute brute heart of a brute like you.” Whilst the internal rhyme and repetition of brute intensifies the accusation, her desperate love for him is also intensifies as she is deep in love with
The poet is can be analyzed through various aspects. The simple base idea like “Content”, “Aim” and “Theme”, can be talked and should be linked throughout the analysis, but the analysis of literary devices such as imagery …show more content…
“The Minotaur” by Ted Hughes; published in 1998, is one explicit example that shows Hughes’s utilization of poetic devices in order to show the complexity of factors that led to his tragedy-like relationship with Sylvia Plath. “The Minotaur” is written after the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, which was written on 1962, shortly before her death. Interestingly, these two poems share a single theme which is “family and relationship”, moreover, they both have used literary techniques to influence the meaning conveyed by the readers and successfully allow the portrayal of their conflicting perspectives in the …show more content…
As an example, in second stanza, her father is described as ‘a bag full of God” and a “Ghastly statue”. This strong juxtaposition of God and Ghastly statue ultimately shows how important her father was to her life; he is like her god, like a compass of life, but also is a cruel dictator of her life. As it shows, the diction used to illustrate her father constantly shifts between admiring and cruel, and therefore portrays her conflicting feelings. Following this, Plath also uses allusion to enforce the victimization. For example: her description of the relationship later in the poem: “not God but a swastika” manipulates the image of a Jew and Nazi during the World War II in the reader. Her fear overpowers her and the inability to be free of her father dominates her love, and turns it to a deep hatred just like in the perspectives of the Jews. Also, her illustration of her father “your mustache and your Aryan eye”, brings the historical allusion of Hitler, creates powerful victimization of her. However, the speaker still shows her conflict of love and hate for her father, especially in the eleventh stanza: “Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute brute heart of a brute like you.” Whilst the internal rhyme and repetition of brute intensifies the accusation, her desperate love for him is also intensifies as she is deep in love with