Daddy by Sylvia Plath
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"Daddy"
Sylvia Plath, a great American poet, wrote "Daddy". This poem describes her childhood with her father and then her husband. Plath used many different literary techniques to create this effective piece. In the poem "Daddy", imagery, symbolism, repetition, tone, and descriptive detail were used to make this poem effective. Each literary technique used, not only helps the reader feel what the author is feeling, but, it helps the reader to better understand the poem.
Imagery, "a poem cannot exist without" it (Bogarad 1236). There were many different imagery sites throughout the poem by Plath, such as the shoes, feet, and roots. In the lines 22-24, of her poem "Daddy",
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I could never talk to you
The recurrent image is the shoes and feet; these simple words take a new meaning in each use. Such as, "1.2 the speaker compares herself to a foot (simile) that "lives" in a shoe, the shoe is her father" (Goelzhaeuser 1)...