In the first stanza, Sylvia Plath refer to herself as a foot when and her father a shoe "you do not anymore, black shoe in which I have lived like a foot." Usually one would think that, a shoe is comfortable and it protects your foot, nevertheless Plath's poem illustrates her poetic strategy of vivid metaphor, imagery, rhyme, tone, and simile. ... And while he was alive, he was lacking in affection for her and that caused her to live the rest of her life in depression. ...

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The poet restates the title in his poem twice assuring the reader the speaker was disappointed by the way he lived in 1948. ... Once the speaker arrives in his bedroom he lets his "shoes drop one by one". This man is obviously so tired that the effortless job of removing his shoes is a hard task at that moment. He doesn't remove his shoes one by one, he lets them drop. ...

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'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. In this opening stanza, the familiar image of a foot inside a shoe forms the basis of a psychological exploration of the subjugation of women to the power of dominant masculinity. Plath, representative of women, is forced into submission by the notion of her deceased father, the black shoe in this instance. This commonplace simile, combined ...

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(Revising Life, pg 48) There has been reference made to the black shoe in the first stanza, "Anymore black shoe in which I have lived like a foot" as representing her fathers amputation of his leg from complications of diabetes. ...

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Purity is presented again in the stanza when the girl's "white gloves" and "white shoes" are described. ... Irony, although present through the entire poem, is especially present in the last stanza when her mother pulls a shoe out of the debris. This is ironic because after all of the imagery surrounding her preparation and appearance, her white shoe is all that is left. ... Randall invokes emotions by telling a story of what it may have been like to live in a controversial time as the one described in the poem. ...

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In the poems "Digging," by Seamus Heaney and "Those Winter Sundays," by Robert Hayden, both write about their father in reflective poems about childhood. Children don't notice a parents commitment required to keep their families fed, happy and safe. Heaney and Hayden narrate the poem, using nostalg...

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I have not been with anyone else's husband...I want to squeeze my baby's legs, see her turn into a woman like me" This woman just wants to live her life just like anyone else she dreams of watching her child grow and live carefree, but that never happens. ... One could say that the tree bearing fruit could symbolize the physical world that we live in and the fruits define all of us living on this world: "and my long, lean feet like my mother's have known where to take me, to where sweet things grow. ... I did not break into your home, tell you how to live or die. ... C...

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I think if she could have known that she would die of an aneurysm, suddenly and without warning, at sixty-eight, as she was putting on her shoes to go out to dinner, she"d have lived a happier life." ...

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People see him as perfect and long to be in his shoes, they refer to him with endearing words, and use words like "from sole to crown". ... They then looked at him not as someone held in their highest respects, but as person who they now pity because he lived in hidden agony. ...

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" As the poem goes on, we may place ourselves in the father's shoes. ... He will never be forgotten, and there will always be someone that knows of him around, like his poetry that will live on through the ages. ...

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The two poems are set nearly a century and half apart. Despite this, the poems have very similar occurrences. The poems are both about the differences of commitment between boys and girl in relationships, and the abuse they receive from neighbours and local people. The reader must note that the poet...

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One can see this from the beginning of the poem when Plath writes, " You do not do, you not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot- (lines 1-3). ... For example, "she starts out imagining herself as a prisoner living like a foot in the black shoe of her father. ...

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The single syllables used in 'sharp shoes' portrays these material possessions as tacky and to lack meaning. ... The repetition of the word 'pure' suggests that while all these products are portrayed as ideal and perfect, they have no depth when compared to our 'live imperfect eyes' which are not flawless but they are real and have value. ...

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