Daddy Flashcards
What topics are there in Daddy
Neglect, Death, Evil,
Victim mentality, Negative self-perception,
War, Semitism (support Jews)
Who wrote Daddy
Syvia Plath
“I have always been ______ __ ___, With your ________your _________./ And your _____ mustache/ And your_______eye, bright ____./ ______-man, _______ man . O ____” + technique
Extended Metaphor- saying her father is a Nazi( Hitler)- “I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe(Arial attack branch- one of the strongest in the world), your gobbledygoo./ And your neat mustache/ And your Aryan eye, bright blue./ Panzer-man, panzer man (“tank man”), O you” + technique
The holocaust what technique ?
Extended Metaphor- The holocaust
“You __ ___ ___, you do ___ __ Any more ____ ___” + technique
Imagery+ Repetition - (grey)- “You do not do, you do not do Any more black shoe”
_____ statue with one ______,/ big as a ____ ____”
Imagery(grey) + metaphor- Ghastly statue with one grey toe,/ big as a Frisco seal”
A ____ in your c____ instead of your _____/ But no ___ a ____ for that ___ ___” + technique
Imagery- (devil)- A cleft in your chin instead of your foo/ But no less a devil for that no not”
At _____ I tried to ___ and get ___ ___ ___ to ___”
+ technique
Repetition- At twenty I tried to die and get back, back, back to you”
it ___ in a _____ __ snare./ ___ __ __ ___ ,/ I could ____ speak” + technique
Repetition- it stuck in a barb wire snare./ ich, Ich, Ich, Ich,/ I could hardly speak” (ich=I in german)
“I have ___ like _ ____/ For _____ ___” + technique
Simile- “I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years”
“but they ____ me out of the ____, and ____ me together with ____.”
Metaphor “but they pulled me out of the sack, and stuck me together with glue.”
“a love of the ____and _____”. + technique
Negative Imagery- “a love of the rack and screw”. (torture device)
“drank my _____ for a ___, _____ years, if you want to ____”. + technique
Metaphor- “drank my blood for a year, seven years, if you want to know”.
An ____, an ____/ chuffing me __ like a ____./ A ___ to ____, ______, ____./ I began to ____ like a ___/ I think I may ___ be a ____) + technique
Connotative language+ Repetition- (WW2) An engine, an engine/ chuffing me off like a Jew./ A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen./ I began to talk like a Jew/ I think I may well be a Jew)
