The use of Tone, Figures of speech, and Meanings to show how one feels towards their father in “Daddy” and “My Papa’s Waltz”
The poem “Daddy” written by Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, are both poems about a child’s feelings towards their father. In “Daddy” the author takes a mean and hatred approach to talk about her feelings for her late father. Plath tells about her whole life hating her father. As where Roethke talks about one incident with her father. In “My Papa’s Waltz” Roethke talks of his father in a calmer, but also fearful and loving. Although these two poems are different in tone and in language, they are both still expressing the discomfort with their fathers.
“Daddy” is written in a very angry, loud and pissed off tone. You can see this sense of loudness in her tone as Elaine Connell says she “used writing as an outlet to calm herself down, and pour her emotions into her writing”. It is easy to assume that the poem is about a child and her father’s relationship. My first reaction to the title of this poem was an image of a girl and her father; to her he was daddy, and her hero, but after reading the poem, it is clear this is not a healthy or loving relationship. Plath us
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So in the end after all of this abuse, the author still as longing love for his father. In lines (46-47), Plath says “Not God, but a swastika/ So black no sky could speak through”. She is referring to her father as a swastika not God. “The child only recalls waltzing with his drunken father”. She doesn’t really say straightforward if she was a Jew or not. In lines (5-6) the author says “We romped until the pans/ Slid from the kitchen shelf”. These two poems are very good examples of great . She explains how she felt like her father treated her like a Jew in a Concentration Camp. Plath’s is a more mental abuse while Roenthke’s is leaning more toward physical abuse. Plath says the “The Germans were rude, and the language obscene/ An engine, an engine/ Chuffing me off like a Jew. This is explaining that not even his mother’s words would change his father’s actions. She compares her fathers black to her red one. This poem still shows anger towards his father, but in a loving way. His young daughter was on a search to find her loving father she thought, but was let down at he end of her search.
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