Daddy By Sylvia Plath

Part I of Essay
As a poet Sylivia Plath has been renowned for her style of writing and the power she evokes from her ideas in her poems. The themes of her poems tend to be of a negative nature with war, death and the problem of patriarchal societies as such topics. One of Plath's most famo ....

Part II of Essay
.... in her poetry is the metaphor. An example of one lies within the first stanza of Daddy. Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Here the persona uses the simile "like a foot" to compare herself to a foot. Metaphorically she is describing how she has had to live her life without her father, entrapped in black sadness like how a foot is tightly enclosed within a shoe. The reader is positioned to see that life can become very grim growing up without an impo ....