This can be seen in the seventh and eighth line of the poem, “But when my old woman died her soul/ Went into that vacuum cleaner.” So to the poet, the vacuum is his personified wife. The second line of the poem says that, “The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet,” which suggests that his wife is angry and refuses to speak to poet because she is offended by seeing all of the dirt in his present life; which would never happen if she was alive. This argument is further supported with by the lines three to five which states, “its mouth/ Grinning into the floor, maybe at my/ Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth.” The vacuum seems to be grinning and getting mad at him, by seeing how pathetic and awful he has turned up. The word vacuum also stands for the void or emptiness which has been created in the poet’s life after the death of his wife. This shows that metaphor has also been used by the poet.
Some grieve over words that can never be said or heard, others over someone they won’t see again, and so on. Abby grieves over her marriage as she reveals to Oskar that, “My husband and I had been having a terrible fight” (Foer 290). William Black, her ex-husband is able to attain closure when Oskar gives him the key to a safe that belonged to his deceased father. A.R. Black grieves over his wife’s death by hammering nails into their bed and for his loss of hearing.
Azucena Tapia Ap literature 4B Ms.Joseph January 24, 2013 “Daddy” Analysis In the poem ,“Daddy”, the poet uses a copious amount of techniques to convey her attitude towards her father. Plath writes about her father and how she feels bitter and sardonic towards him. The poet’s effective use of syntax and diction in this poem describes her feelings towards her father. Symbolism and metaphors are also used to portray her father’s actions and beliefs. Throughout the poem, “Daddy”, Plath uses metaphor to explicate her irate and sardonic attitude towards her late father.
This word helps the reader to identify the speaker’s emotional standpoint of the separation. One can assume he feels as if his ex-lover has ripped his heart apart from hers. In the last line of the first stanza, “truly that hour foretold sorrow to this,” the speaker shows the readers that the pain and grief he feels in the moment of their separation does not ease with time. The feelings he felt in the moment of separation was just foreshadowing the greater sorrow the speaker would feel later on. In the second stanza, it describes the speaker’s atmosphere as being cold.
Although it was just one unfortunate couple so terribly disturbed, they may represent the thousands of unnoticed tragedies that occur. The poem depicts one tragic death paralleling it with the loss of love and familiarity. The poem is from a woman, whose husband had recently died, as an expression of her sentiments. I believe the poem was a monologue and the woman was speaking to herself in a loss. It could also be interpreted as a funeral speech because she makes strict orders to aid her mourning.
Alex Muench Mrs. Evans Honors/Pre-AP American Literature 22 May 2012 Poetry Analysis: Daddy by Sylvia Plath “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is about Sylvia and her father and their relationship. Sylvia Plath starts the poem, “Daddy”, by saying “You do not do, you do not do”, “you” referring to her father. This repetition of “You do not do” gives it a sing-songy feel. In stanza 1, Sylvia Plath uses a simile to compare her Dad to a black shoe, in which she is the foot. By using this comparison it symbolizes the suffocation and unhappiness she felt, as well as how she feels small compared to her father.
Owen has divided the fourteen lines of this sonnet into two stanzas, the break coming at the end of the line 8. By using a sonnet for the structure of his poem, Wilfred Owen introduces a touch of irony, because the conventional function of the sonnet is love, and this poem is sort of anti-love because the young soldiers have to spend their time in the trenches. So, their lives are wasted and, overall, the lives of their loved ones at home are also ruined. Talking about the tone, we can say that the poet depicts a strong anger at the futility of war having experienced the horrors himself. In the first octet, we see that Owen makes a catalogue of the sound of war, the weapons of destructions such as “guns” (line 2), “rifles” (line 3) and “shells” (line 7), which are linked to religious imagery such as “orisons” (line 4), “bells” (line 5), “prayers” (line
The poet here uses alliteration in line 1 and 2 to highlight the words “study, sits, stiffly” which brings out the father’s character and uses the same technique in line 3 “that thirteen times” by repeating the letter “t” to create a chatty and colloquial style that continues throughout the poem. The study where the father works is seen as his refuge but this seems to alienate the protagonist. The poet again personifies the phone as being an instrument that brings distressing “sobbing” news that draws the surgeon from his home repeatedly. The poet has successfully used alliteration in line 5 in the usage of sobbing and sleep to highlight the dangers and emotional challenges of being a surgeon. The “sobbing” could also refer to the poet’s youth as he spent time sobbing without his father who was away at work.
Compare and contrast ‘Daddy’ by Sylvia Plath with ‘Reference back’ by Philip Larkin’ By Elliott Fletcher Daddy by Plath and Reference back by Larkin both explore the dysfunctional relationship between parent and child by having numerous similarities and comparisons in common, but both being wholly different. Daddy leaves the reader disturbed whereas reference back leaves the reading with a feeling of mixed emotions. Daddy, comprised of sixteen five-line stanzas is a brutal and venomous poem believed to be about Plath’s deceased father, Otto. Reference back is a poem based upon Larkin’s mother. After his father died, he would regularly go and visit her.
The poem “Acquainted with the Night” By Robert Frost seems to have a somber, almost depressed tone. It is no secret that many of Frost’s poems have the same kind of tone to them. Many say that this is due to the unfortunate loss of his son Elliot in 1900 from cholera, his mother in the same year from cancer, daughter Elinor Bettina just one day after birth in 1907, daughter Marjorie after giving birth to her only child in 1934, and his son Carol from suicide on 1940. All of this death in the family contributed to Frost falling into a depressed state where many of his poems immersed from. This poem is set in a sad and lonely city on a sad and lonely night.