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Answer & Explanation:Read Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” in our textbook and then go to Youtube and view and listen to Plath herself reading her poem “Daddy.” Then while there listen to oliviam 16 read Plath’s poem “Mirror.” After you are finished, return to the Discussion here and answer the following questions:1) How different is the experience of reading “Daddy” as opposed to hearing Plath read it and seeing the video? Explain?2) Does the poem, “Mirror” work with the mirror itself as the poem’s narrator? Why or why not?3) What do you particularly like or dislike about either poem? Explain and give examples.4) How does Plath use the imagery of Nazi Germany in her poem? Does it work? Why? How?5) What does the narrator of “Daddy” mean when she says, “If I have killed one man, I have killed two”? Explain.6) Does the narrator seem to love or hate her father? Explain.7) Is the poem “Mirror” about change? If so,m what change?8) If you have anything, any comment, any question, anything at all further to post on either poem, please do so.You can find online.two postspost 1.doc post 2 (2).doc
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The poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, is to me a very disturbing one. I found it
fascinating how the author uses such a sweet title to unleash in fact a barrage of
cruel and discourteous words towards her father. It is one of the darkest poem
have ever read, which had me quiver on every words.
Hearing the poem in contrast to reading it is certainly day and night. In my lecture,
I could not really establish a true connection with the author, as I was struggling to
understand some of the wordings and their contexts. I should also mention that
this is not an easy poem to read. However, everything automatically clicked
following my hearing of it. I can sense the author’s sorrow in her voice, and her
rage is really obvious. She is very passionate, as if she is reliving every second of
her atrocious journey with her dad. I feel her pain and understand her tribulation
as her voice at one point becomes coarse and filled with emotions.
I do believe that the poem “Mirror” is an obvious reflection of the author’s
evolution throughout the years. Just like the poet, sometimes you take a glimpse
at your mirror and find yourself plunged into a deep thought, reminiscing about
your life and what has become of it.
I like Plath’s intensity in the poem “Daddy”, she really makes me live her life for a
moment. I also like the fact that she does not hold back on her feelings as she uses
very poignant terms to epitomize her relationship with her father.
Plath basically compares her father to all the Nazis, to emphasize on how much
she hates him. Only bad memories emerge when she thinks of the Germans. “I
thought every German was you.
And the language obscene”.
“If I have killed one man, I have killed two.” That phrase means that the author in
her mind not only killed her father but also killed the man resembling her father,
her husband.
The narrator definitely hates her father. I also believe that Plath’s dad drove her
into depression. She had only bad memories of him and her eventual suicide
probably had to do with all those years in peril with dad.
The poem “Mirror” is without a doubt about change. It is about all the
transformation that the author has gone through over the years, both physically
and mentally. “In me, she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”
First and foremost, I was only acutely aware of Plath’s work prior to this
assignment. I don’t recall ever having read her works. So for me, I had to do a lot
of research on not just the two works this week, but on Plath herself. Discovering
that she had suffered from depression and likely other other mental disorders, and
that “Daddy” was written very shortly before her death, helped me to understand
the frantic nature of the poem. At least it did for me.
1) I liked listening to Plath read “Daddy” far better than reading it myself. You
truly get a firsthand listen to it in the writers voicing with all the emphasis she
intended to have. The pictures made it a bit more difficult for me, as I was trying
to concentrate on listening. And when I started paying attention to the images, I
feel as though I lost the feeling in the text as she was reading. So I ended up
listening to it maybe five times over a few days to really feel what she was saying.
2) The poem “Mirror” absolutely worked for me from the perspective of the
mirror. It was as if the mirror was trying to tell the woman that any judgment she
attaches to what she sees is her’s and her’s alone.
3) The imagery in “Daddy” and the way the poem progresses from father to
humanity in general made me almost wish that there were several different poems
that individually discussed the father, Germany and Naziism, and humanity in
general. Since they were all combined it felt as though the transitions were very
stunted. But again, knowing what she was suffering from and that at this point I
don’t believe she was being medicated, it at least gives one understanding as to
why she wrote that way, almost as if she was having a manic episode at the
time. “Mirror” for me was more enjoyable to me because it was a far more
universal subject. At one point in our lives, most people have had a point where
they looked in a mirror and didn’t like what they saw. Be that the physical
presence or the more abstract idea of the person they had become. And in those
moments, most would wish the mirror would show them who they want to
be. But that isn’t what mirrors do, they do exactly as she said, “I am silver and
exact. I have no preconceptions.” They tell the hard truth no matter how many
times you look in them.
4) She uses the Nazi imagery in “Daddy” to paint a picture of her father without
really describing him, and to a larger extent, show that in her mind all Germans
were the same. When she says “I made a model of you, / A man in black with
aMeinkampf look” she is telling us that her father may well have been any German
because it would not have made a difference as they were all the same to her.
5) When she talks about killing two, she is referring to both her father and her
husband. We know this because she also says “And I said I do, I do.” which tells
us the other man is her husband. So in her mind, she made this image of her
father and found it in the man she married. Now to be rid of her daddy in her
mind, she must kill the image of both men.
6) I think the speaker hates her father as an adult, and all of the comparisons of
him to the Nazis and her referring to herself as a Jew draw all of those
parallels. It seems obvious to me. However, the 20 year old self attempted
suicide “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you.” So at least at
that point in her life she felt she needed to be with him again, and this shows that
at that time she still loved him.
7) “Mirror” is about aging and the change we go through as we get older. This is
evidenced at the very end of the poem when the mirror says “In me she has
drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day,
like a terrible fish.”
8) I would just like to add that knowing Sylvia Plath committed suicide gives a
very unfortunate understanding to the darkness in many of her works. Had there
been a greater understanding of mental disorders and how to treat them, she may
have received the anti-depressants she needed before it was too late for her. And
I also feel that had I not done more research on her and reading several different
interpretations of “Daddy” in particular, I would still have felt lost trying to grasp
what she was really talking about. I know that I for one, read Daddy at least a half
a dozen times, and watched the YouTube video of her reading it at least 5.
First and foremost, I was only acutely aware of Plath’s work prior to this
assignment. I don’t recall ever having read her works. So for me, I had to do a lot
of research on not just the two works this week, but on Plath herself. Discovering
that she had suffered from depression and likely other other mental disorders, and
that “Daddy” was written very shortly before her death, helped me to understand
the frantic nature of the poem. At least it did for me.
1) I liked listening to Plath read “Daddy” far better than reading it myself. You
truly get a firsthand listen to it in the writers voicing with all the emphasis she
intended to have. The pictures made it a bit more difficult for me, as I was trying
to concentrate on listening. And when I started paying attention to the images, I
feel as though I lost the feeling in the text as she was reading. So I ended up
listening to it maybe five times over a few days to really feel what she was saying.
2) The poem “Mirror” absolutely worked for me from the perspective of the
mirror. It was as if the mirror was trying to tell the woman that any judgment she
attaches to what she sees is her’s and her’s alone.
3) The imagery in “Daddy” and the way the poem progresses from father to
humanity in general made me almost wish that there were several different poems
that individually discussed the father, Germany and Naziism, and humanity in
general. Since they were all combined it felt as though the transitions were very
stunted. But again, knowing what she was suffering from and that at this point I
don’t believe she was being medicated, it at least gives one understanding as to
why she wrote that way, almost as if she was having a manic episode at the
time. “Mirror” for me was more enjoyable to me because it was a far more
universal subject. At one point in our lives, most people have had a point where
they looked in a mirror and didn’t like what they saw. Be that the physical
presence or the more abstract idea of the person they had become. And in those
moments, most would wish the mirror would show them who they want to
be. But that isn’t what mirrors do, they do exactly as she said, “I am silver and
exact. I have no preconceptions.” They tell the hard truth no matter how many
times you look in them.
4) She uses the Nazi imagery in “Daddy” to paint a picture of her father without
really describing him, and to a larger extent, show that in her mind all Germans
were the same. When she says “I made a model of you, / A man in black with
aMeinkampf look” she is telling us that her father may well have been any German
because it would not have made a difference as they were all the same to her.
5) When she talks about killing two, she is referring to both her father and her
husband. We know this because she also says “And I said I do, I do.” which tells
us the other man is her husband. So in her mind, she made this image of her
father and found it in the man she married. Now to be rid of her daddy in her
mind, she must kill the image of both men.
6) I think the speaker hates her father as an adult, and all of the comparisons of
him to the Nazis and her referring to herself as a Jew draw all of those
parallels. It seems obvious to me. However, the 20 year old self attempted
suicide “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you.” So at least at
that point in her life she felt she needed to be with him again, and this shows that
at that time she still loved him.
7) “Mirror” is about aging and the change we go through as we get older. This is
evidenced at the very end of the poem when the mirror says “In me she has
drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman / Rises toward her day after day,
like a terrible fish.”
8) I would just like to add that knowing Sylvia Plath committed suicide gives a
very unfortunate understanding to the darkness in many of her works. Had there
been a greater understanding of mental disorders and how to treat them, she may
have received the anti-depressants she needed before it was too late for her. And
I also feel that had I not done more research on her and reading several different
interpretations of “Daddy” in particular, I would still have felt lost trying to grasp
what she was really talking about. I know that I for one, read Daddy at least a half
a dozen times, and watched the YouTube video of her reading it at least 5.
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