The Rhetorical Analysis Of Otto Plaths Father - 1224 Words

The speaker continues to address her father directly, commenting â€Å"You stand at the blackboard, daddy,† while looking at a picture she owns of him. This also connects back to the actual Otto Plath, who was a professor at Boston University. In the picture, the father has â€Å"A cleft in your chin instead of your foot† which references how the devil has cleft feet. She sees that he is â€Å"But no less a devil for that, no not† and that she sees him as the devil. Plath uses enjambment when she ends the line with â€Å"no not/Any less the black man who///Bit my pretty red heart in two.† he description of her heart being â€Å"bit in two† brings up an image of a heart being broken or split in half, just as the enjambment splits up the idea between the lines and†¦show more content†¦The â€Å"Meinkampf† look refers to Hitler’s autobiography â€Å"Mein Kampf† and just like she saw Hitler and the Nazis in her father, this new man has the same look, and serves as a living substitute for her to hate. Not only is this man like a Nazi, he also has â€Å"a love of the rack and the screw.† The rack is a torture device designed to pull the limbs of the victim, and the â€Å"screw† refers to a thumbscrew. Like her father, this man is a â€Å"brute† who is violent and powerful, and like the women she previously criticized, she falls in love with him, a fascist because â€Å"Every woman adores a Fascist.† She continues, â€Å"And I said I do, I do.† marrying him and saying the wedding vows. She then addresses her father, saying â€Å"So daddy, I’m finally through./The black telephone’s off at the root,/The voices just can’t worm through.† Although she marries a man based off her father, she believes that she has finally escaped him. The color black, which she has used to describe her father, and her husband, and now the phone, evokes images of dea th. She describes the telephone to communicate with her father as being â€Å"off at the root,† which references how she previously could never find his foot or root, but is now content with ending her search. The use of â€Å"worms† also relates back to the idea of death, and how there are most likely worms around his grave, but these worms will not affect herShow MoreRelatedMutilating Self Into Spirit: Sylvia Plaths Poems.4131 Words   |  17 PagesSylvia Plath’s poems: Translation of the self into spirit, after an ordeal of mutilation. Introduction of the poems and the essay: * â€Å"Daddy† Sylvia Plath uses her poem, â€Å"Daddy†, to express intense emotions towards her father’s life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband. The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten, at a time when she still adored him unconditionally. Then she gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her father, and comparesRead MorePoem Analysis of Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath3011 Words   |  13 PagesPoem Analysis: Lady Lazarus In American culture, suicide is considered to be one of the darkest taboos. It has the particular quality of being equally gripping and repulsive. Although suicide is seen as overtly morbid, gruesome and disturbing, it has made many people famous. Sylvia Plath, the illustrious 20th century poetess, is one of them. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 of two parents in a middleclass household in Boston. At a very young age, she demonstrated great literary talent