Daddy VS My Papa's Waltz

Written in the 1960’s “Daddy” seems to have taken place in the 40’s. As a child Sylvia Plath grew up to think of her father as God. He was the head of the household and ran the house with an iron fist. Her father was a German who came to the United States from Poland. Sylvia refers to her father as a Nazi, when in fact he was not one at all. Otto Plath, Sylvia’s father, was in fact a Republican, not a Nazi. Her mother may have been partly Jewish. So, as she finds out her father was German and a very domineering man she resents him for

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The imagery in "My Papa's Waltz" expresses excitement and high spirits. It seems as though she hates all men not only her father. When I first read My Papa's Waltz, I believed that the poem was about a child being abused by his father.

The two poems are extremely different yet similar in a way. You can read that the boy was still clinging to his father's shirt and he doesn't want to let go. He was a very strong man who believed in discipline. If you look at the title, the word Waltz is an up-beat word. This poem is very uplifting and great to read. He loves his father so much he will not let go. “Daddy” is a poem of total rejection. I read the words battered, scraped, and could tell that the father had been drinking. what his nationality did to her mother’s nationality. Roethke in “My Papa’s Waltz” is not angry at his father at the least. The two poems become completely different the more you look inside them.

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