In the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, we encounter a woman of mixed feelings because she didn't feel loved or affectionate by her father. ... 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.... Plath concludes with the symbolic scene of the speaker killing her vampire father. ... Plath definitely wrote this poem to free herself from the memories of her father and her husband. ... Plath is still pained by these men, and cannot completely go on being alive. ...

• Word Count: 736
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Lady Lazarus - Sylvia Plath In this poem Sylvia Plath is talking about her invincibility in the face of the suicide attempts that she made. ... The lots of repetition Sylvia Plath uses really emphasizes what she is saying. ...

• Word Count: 820
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. ... Plath suffered from depression for much of her adult life, and in 1963, at age thirty, she committed suicide. ... Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" uses the Jews' insufferable torture and helplessness during the Holocaust, to express her feelings and thoughts on her love-hate relationship with death. Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" is written in short, three-line stanzas, which offer quick and roughly descriptive details. ... The poem "Lady Lazarus," by Sylvia Plath, use...

• Word Count: 1705
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy," emphasizes the ill-fated relationship between a woman and her deceased father. ... Throughout the poem, Plath uses German inferences and simplistic language in order to escape the oppression of her father, but preserve the idealistic mirror of him. ...

• Word Count: 1113
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School