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Daddy's Girl?, 1995.
1,770 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, $ 57.95
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The essay examines the unusual and unconventional father-daughter relationships that exist in "A Midsummer?s Night" Dream and ?"Romeo and Juliet".
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"Biological fathers in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet are seen as authoritative, ruling figures. Their only apparent role in each is to make decisions for their daughters."
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Boys vs. Girls; Girls and Boys, 2008.
This paper provides a literary analysis of Alice Munro's novel "Found Boat" and focuses on the dilemma raised regarding boys versus girls.
1,212 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 41.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Munro's short story is about two young preteen girls, Eva and Carol, and their quest to be noticed by the uninterested boys. The writer discusses that Munro effectively manipulates the obscure rules of pre-teenagers to create the dilemma where Eva and Carol try to attract the other boys' attention using a boat they found.Through Munro's excellent understanding of the preteen rational, the author creates a dilemma for the young Eve and Carol to search the attention they seek, and in turn expresses the reality of such a fragile time period as the preteen years. The writer maintains that it is important that authors like Munro reminds readers of a time with simple rules so people can escape back to that certain time through the artistry of their fictional works.
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"It is commonly understood that society abides by a strict unwritten law, and through the various stages of life those rules change drastically. For example, as children: the rules state that a boy and a girl are mutual and utter enemies, but as the children enter the preteen marker, the rules seem to change completely. Eventually, both sexes find themselves fascinated with one another. Yet, by the mandate of puberty, this change does not happen simultaneously, it is the female that goes through these mind and body changes first, and as a result a young preteen girl might start finding interest in the opposite sex but not get the same interest back. Author Alice Munro surely understands this concept and uses it as a palette to paint her short story, "The Found Boat"."
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?Daddy?, 2002.
A review of the poem ?Daddy? by Sylvia Plath.
886 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper examines Sylvia Plath?s poem ?Daddy?, a poetic tirade directed at a father who is the source of considerable pain. It looks at how the narrator in ?Daddy? is actually a 30-year-old woman and presumably the voice of Sylvia Plath and how this poem, like much of Plath?s poetry, is autobiographical. It shows how in ?Daddy? she attempts to connect the intensely personal suffering of a woman (Plath) who never recovered from the death of her father to a more universal suffering, whether it?s between father and daughter, husband and wife or tyrant and captive.
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"In Plath?s Incarnation: Woman And The Creative Process, Bundtzen describes Plath?s metaphor of men as fascist as a larger feminine issue. ?Plath is not concerned primarily with personal afflictions, except as they represent a wider feminine condition. As she puts it in ?Daddy,? ?Every woman adores a fascist (30).? Or, every woman adores God-like men who represent power.
To post-feminist women, such a statement might seems incredibly dated or exagerrated. ?Daddy? was published in 1961, and this type of relationship was very real to Plath. In fact, she focused extensively on the oppressive relationships in her life in her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar."
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"Valentine? and ?Daddy?, 2005.
A comparative analysis of the poems "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy and "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
779 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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This paper looks at two examples of poems whose treatment of their subject are both varied and unusual - "Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy and "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. It looks at how these two poems use a variety of poetic techniques to express their feelings effectively and how although both poems are unique, they are at the same time themed similarly on "love-hate" relationships.
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"An unusual and interesting technique used by Plath was her constant referral to different colours - "black, white, grey, green, blue, blue, black, black, red..." I believe she may have employed colour as a metaphor to reflect all the conflicting emotions inside her, each colour representing a different emotion. For example, "black" has connotations of darkness and evil and so may have been used as a symbol for hate, while red may have been used to represent the love she feels for her father at the same time. It is interesting to notice how the word "black" is repeated a number of times while the colour "red" is only mentioned once. This may have been used to symbolise the fact that most of her feelings towards her father are those of anger and hate. It may also have been used to reflect on her rebellion to Nazi Germany - very little red (which was the predominant background of the Nazi swastika) is mentioned in the poem while lots of other colours are mentioned that are not in the swastika."
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Plath's "Daddy" and "Mirror", 2005.
An examination of biographical inspirations for the metaphors and tones in Sylvia Plath's poems "Daddy" and "Mirror".
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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Sylvia Plath's problems provided literary release for her enduring poetry. This paper concisely summarizes Plath's life and then analyzes the biographical catalysts of "Mirror" and "Daddy." By citing tones, metaphors, and popular interpretations, the paper places the poems in the context of Plath's life.
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"Plath began to explicitly explore her individuality after the birth of her daughter, causing the candid, yet austere "Mirror." In the poem, Plath is metaphorically both a mirror and the woman reflected in the mirror in the poem, creating herself as the subject. She is initially a "silver and exact" mirror, and "most of the time [she] meditate[s] on the opposite wall" (Hughes 173). With simple phrasing and precise diction, Plath establishes her attitude of blunt intimacy towards her newly-realized self; she uses the tone to show that she is exploring herself honestly. Then, a "woman bends over" the mirror, which is "[n]ow... a lake," and begins "[s]earching [the lake's] reaches for what she really is" (Hughes 174). "
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"Daddy", 2007.
An analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy".
1,135 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 39.95
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The paper examines how Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy" is the performance of a mind that is finally confronting its own suffering and attempting to exorcise the influence of the speaker's father. The paper highlights the imagery, rhyme and repetition that demonstrates how Plath does not create in this poem, but only destroys and rejects her father.
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"The poem opens with the assertion that "[y]ou do not do, you do not do / Any more" , declaring the speaker's position as one forced to confront her situation with regard to her father. The poem exists as the performance of a mind that is finally confronting its own suffering and attempting to exert a control over the idea that has long oppressed it. The speaker jumps from nursery rhyme to ritual, English to German, from longing to curse. The childlike rhyme and repetition suggests the helplessness of the child and the combination of fear and love the father inspired. Simple, insistent rhythm and rhyme schemes, coupled with repetition, lend both a sense of storybook rhythm and that of a mystical spell by which the exorcism may drive off evil."
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"Daddy", 2005.
An analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy".
1,114 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper examines Sylvia Plath's most famous poem, 'Daddy', in order to assess whether the narrator's position has been influenced by the 'patriarchal society' in which she lived, or if her 'own ambitions' led to the heavily depressed attitude that produced a poem in which she compares her own life to the suffering that occurred during the Holocaust. It also looks at how far Plath's personal life affected the piece, and the extent to which her autobiography plays a part in explaining the feelings and beliefs held by the narrator of the poem.
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"Upon further analysis of this poem, however, it becomes quite apparent that despite Plath's attempts to maintain a certain level of distance from the piece through incorrect facts such as claiming that the narrator 'was ten when they buried [her father]' (l. 57) whereas in fact Plath was around eight years old when Otto Plath died, there are various other indications that 'Daddy' is a highly autobiographical piece of writing, including two images in particular that relate quite specifically to her German-Polish father and, towards the end of the poem, several that seem to implicate Ted Hughes, though perhaps less pointedly."
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"The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Daddy", 2007.
An examination of family relationships in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper", and Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy".
982 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper analyzes relationships between wives and husbands in Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" and between daughters and fathers in Plath's "Daddy". The paper discusses how, in both works, female speakers with mental illnesses try to overcome the influence of either an overpowering father or an overprotective husband in order to become more authentic, autonomous, adult selves. The paper concludes that patriarchal interference thwarts the female speaker's individuating process.
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"The first-person narrator, and protagonist, of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (whose name may actually be Jane) is an imaginative, creative, and (for those and other reasons) very frustrated upper-middle-class young woman. She yearns to write and be creative as she had before the story opens. Now, however, she is prohibited, by her neurologist; her well-meaning husband, and by association, society (i.e. patriarchy), from all imaginative or creative pursuits."
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"Daddy", 2006.
A critical analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 0 sources, $ 60.95
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The paper analyzes the poem, discussing the poet's relationship with her father. The paper cites different stanzas throughout the poem to explain Plath's fear of her father. It reviews her father's character, as it is developed in different metaphors in the poem, such as a black shoe and a black swastika. The paper speculates on a possible tie-in between Plath's father and her husband. In conclusion, the writer suggests that perhaps it is Plath's own acknowledgment of the contradictory emotions inside of her which have freed her from her "Daddy's" iron psychological grasp.
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"Plath describes her father vividly through the language which she uses. Though the comparisons made are not always immediately clear in respect to their relation to her father, they create single mental pictures that are paired to create a solid mental image of a harsh, oppressive patriarch. The first stanza begins to calibrate the readers senses to the kind of man Plath's father was. It is painfully obvious that Plath felt rather subdued by her father: "Barely daring to Breathe or Achoo"."
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"Daddy", 2004.
An explication of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy"
1,138 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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Few poems have ever been written that embody the raw emotion evoked by Sylvia Plath's "Daddy". This paper examines how, written only four months before her suicide, the poem is a final purge of emotions. It discusses how it is a delusional account of one woman's spiral into depression and lunacy and how it has remained a topic of controversy since it was first published.
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"The poem opens up with Plath's first description of her father as a black shoe, "in which the daughter has 'lived like a foot', suggesting her submissiveness and entrapment." (Rosenblatt 4). She is afraid to breathe or "achoo." The poem begins with childish language: achoo, rather than sneeze, repetition of phrases, because Plath has traveled back to a child-like state of mind. Even by titling the poem "Daddy," rather than Father, "Plath lets us know that she recognizes the outburst as childish, truer to the child's fantasy of domination and abandonment than the adult's reconstruction of the facts." (Breslin 5). "
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"Daddy", 2005.
An analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes Sylvia Plath's poem, "Daddy," about her powerful and dominating father, from a feminist critique. The analysis argues that the speaker must free herself of her father's control over her in the past in order to experience healing and greater understanding in the present.
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"In Sylvia Plath's memorial to her father Daddy, the speaker demonstrates a great hatred toward her father. Plath ends her poem with "Daddy daddy you bastard I'm through". Despite this sentiment it can also be seen that the poem is actually a .."
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"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, 2005.
A discussion of complex relationships with the father in Plath's "Daddy".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper is an examination of the complex relationships that can occur between fathers and daughters as evidenced in Sylvia Plath's infamous poem "Daddy." The paper analyzes Plath's treatment of her own father in the poem, particularly the way in which the poem oscillates between the ideal and the terrible, evoking images of the divine and also the terrible.
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"Despite proclamations to the contrary, our relationships with our fathers can be incredibly complex. The Western images of the ideal father, perhaps epitomized in paintings by Norman Rockwell, are simplistic and fail to capture the depth of the interaction that can exist between fathers and their children. In particular, the relationship between a father and a daughter can be especially complex - as Freudian psychologists would probably be the first to point out. Whether or not they have the issue correct, the fact remains that fathers and daughters interact in ways that oscillate between adoration and hatred. The desire to be loved and accepted is often mediated by the absence of the father. This complex relationship is more than apparent when we confront one of the most famous (or infamous, depending on one's perspective) poems by Sylvia Plath: "Daddy." "
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Modernism In "Daddy", 2002.
Contemporary analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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An essay on a modern poem entitled "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
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"Daddy Frank", 2002.
This paper is an analysis of Merle Haggard's chart-topping song, "Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man)," and the close-knit family it portrays.
1,339 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the family portrayed in Maggard's song and the dynamics at work in a four-person household headed by a blind musician and his hearing-impaired wife. It discusses how the family travels the country, performing wherever they can find an audience. Despite the handicaps of both parents and the family's struggle to make a living, their relationships are strong and positive, buoyed by faith and mutual trust. It examines how, although Haggard's lyrics are fictional, they are based on his wife's experiences, and they ring true. Daddy Frank's family could have been extremely dysfunctional, yet they managed to turn their problems into strengths, demonstrating one of the most important ways in which families can be positive, healthy factors in the lives of their members.
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"The title character in Haggard's "Daddy Frank," is a guitar player who was born blind. His wife lost her hearing to a fever. The narrator, their son, "don't remember how they got acquainted" (Haggard, 1971), but sees how "their one and only weakness made them strong" (Haggard, 1971). He and his sister, who accompanies the group on tambourine, sing with Daddy Frank; sometimes their father also plays "French harp" (harmonica). The narrator explains, "That little band was all a part of living/And our only means of living at the time" (Haggard, 1971). Daddy Frank's little combo has learned to make beautiful music together, and that music supports them."
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"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath, 2002.
An analysis of the poetry of Sylvia Plath.
1,233 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper presents an analysis of the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. Partially due to the success of her autobiographical novel "The Bell Jar", which details her partial recovery from suicidal depression, Plath?s poetry has been frequently analyzed through the lens of her clinical mental problems. This paper offers a similar point of view, studying "Daddy" in light of the author's mental state of mind. The paper brings to light a number of issues, evident in Plath's work, including the daughter's relationship with her father, fascism, class status, and anti-Semitism among others.
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"Plath?s own German heritage and her difficult relationship with her own father, who died at an early age, makes the highly personal interpretation of this poem often given by critics seem more justified. The poem is more complex than a pure confessional, however. ?Daddy? does attempt to create an analogy between the personal depression and despair of the poet that has caused her to embark upon unfulfilling and controlling relationships with men and a larger historical injustice of violence inflicted upon oppressed people and women. Ultimately, however, the end of the poem locates the work in the individual speaker?s unique personal despair and inner, rather than outer political conflicts."
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