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Relationships between Male and Female Act on Plath’s Two Poems
There are many outstanding poets during the World War I and II in American literature, such as Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, and so on. And one of these poets mentioned before is the female poet, Sylvia Plath who famous for writing poems through the way of Confessional Poetry; and chooses two poems which all perform the relationship between male and female by Sylvia Plath. There are different kinds of relationship between male and female whatever the role they play in the two poems. In addition to, I will also talk about the similarities, differences and poetic styles of two poems were written by Sylvia Plath in the following paragraph. Because Plath is a poet who born after the World War I, at that time, Hitler like a devil to put all innocent Jews to the hell: the gas chamber in Germany. In one of the following poem will analyzes in the following paragraph, Plath use the word German and Fascist to describe the character as a devil and bad guy.
In ‘‘Daddy’’, there are three characters were referred in this poem includes the daughter, the daughter’s father, and the villain. It uses second-person point of view to write this poem. The poem likes the daughter would like to tell something to her father. From literal meaning of the poem, this poem refers the relationship between the daughter and the father isn’t well. The daughter is scared about her father. For instances, the daughter tells us she doesn’t have any courage to talk to her father even to breathe or sneeze. The title of this poem is ambiguous because I think “daddy” is a word to mention the relationship between the father and the daughter is so intimated and fine. But the truth is not, the daughter is scared her father, she doesn’t say anything to her father. I think maybe the poet should choose another appropriate word such as devilish father instead. But I think the aim to construct the tension by misplacing another word is successfully to draw attention to the reader even the reader may have an idea about the father is a good father before read the poem. But the reader will know the truth and overthrow their original imagines to the father and their relationship. In addition to, there is another guy who kills the daughter’s father and sticks the girl with glue. The girl misses her father so much and makes the model of her father when her father is killed by another cruel guy. In this poem, the girl always is a victim to her father and the villain. I think Plath condemns the German, Fascist, and war in this poem. Sylvia Plath uses a series of negative words like the German, swastika, Belsen, Fascist, and brute heart to metaphor the father who the daughter is scared. Plath also uses Jew, the victim in the Fascist society to metaphor the daughter. And Plath uses the roller to symbol the war. For example, Plath uses the roller to mention the Poland was destroyed and scraped flat by the war to emphasize the horror and power of the world war. And I also found the ambiguous condition in this poem. The girl misses her father so much after her father was killed by the villain. So she writes the poem and expresses her feelings which she never talks to her father. But she calls her father is a bastard in the end of this poem after she expresses her miss to her father.
In “Fever 103°”, there are two characters are referred in this poem includes the girl, and her pursuer. It uses second-person point of view to write this poem. From literal meaning of the poem, in my own interpretation, the virginity is portrayed as a girl. This poem talks about the girl warns her lover and pursuer doesn’t touch her body. Plath emphasizes the virginity is dangerous through uses the artful metaphors and images. This title of the poem is paradoxical. Because in the title, Plath uses the hottest temperature “Fever 103°” to describe it is dangerous to touch it, it may kill you. However, Plath describes the dark and frozen image of hell even she mentions the dog, Cerberus who is the guard of the hell. In that way, the reader may confuse why the hottest temperature and the frozen temperature may appear in the same time. In my view, Plath draws attention to the reader successfully through she places another impertinent word in the title. Sylvia Plath uses a series of words and articles like pure, tongue of Cerberus, devilish leopard, flicking of the light, God, lantern, camellia, acetylene to metaphor the virginity in the female. And Plath uses a series of things like sin, snuffed candle, Isadora’s scarves, yellow sullen smokes, radiation, Hiroshima ash, and water to metaphor the sexual behavior which also describes the male. The speaker refers the female body is pure and holy, male shouldn’t touch it.
There are five similarities on two poems, as follows. Firstly, Sylvia Plath uses the second-person point of view to write these two poems. In the second place, there are characters of male and female, and female as the protagonist on these two poems. In third, both perform the relationship between the male and female. And in the poems, Plath uses the negative words represent the females play the role as the victim by the male but the male as the oppressor. What’s more, “Plath uses the styles of confessional poem which emphasizes the intimate.” Last but not the least, Plath both uses the ambiguous and paradoxical title to catch the reader’s attentions.
There are four differences on two poems, as follows. Firstly, Plath uses the allusion from history in the World War I which combines the idea of repressor and the victim in the first one, but the second one is cites the allusion from history facts and Greek mythology. In the second place, characters are in different relationship, the first one is a relationship between the father as an oppressor, the daughter as a victim but the other is a relationship between the female as a victim and the male as a oppressor. What’s more, as a matter of the fact, the first one the daughter is repressed by her father and the villain who kills her father but the other one the female doesn’t repressed by her pursuer, the female just warns her pursuer. Last but not the least, the first one mentions truth but the other one Plath refers the female through the virginity.
From these two poems, I found Plath is a poet different from other traditional female writer. In these two poems, Plath all mentions the female as the sufferer but the male as the oppressor. Plath uses the allusion from political historical truth like Hitler represses and persecute even kill the Jew when he is a president in Germany to satirize the tyrant Hitler and makes connects with the metaphor which metaphor male as the oppressor. Also Plath uses the allusion from historical truth like Isadora Duncan dies due to her scarf was anchored in the wheel to metaphor the sexual behavior destroys the female’s virginity.
There are many outstanding poets during the World War I and II in American literature, such as Sylvia Plath, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, and so on. And one of these poets mentioned before is the female poet, Sylvia Plath who famous for writing poems through the way of Confessional Poetry; and chooses two poems which all perform the relationship between male and female by Sylvia Plath. There are different kinds of relationship between male and female whatever the role they play in the two poems. In addition to, I will also talk about the similarities, differences and poetic styles of two poems were written by Sylvia Plath in the following paragraph. Because Plath is a poet who born after the World War I, at that time, Hitler like a devil to put all innocent Jews to the hell: the gas chamber in Germany. In one of the following poem will analyzes in the following paragraph, Plath use the word German and Fascist to describe the character as a devil and bad guy.
In ‘‘Daddy’’, there are three characters were referred in this poem includes the daughter, the daughter’s father, and the villain. It uses second-person point of view to write this poem. The poem likes the daughter would like to tell something to her father. From literal meaning of the poem, this poem refers the relationship between the daughter and the father isn’t well. The daughter is scared about her father. For instances, the daughter tells us she doesn’t have any courage to talk to her father even to breathe or sneeze. The title of this poem is ambiguous because I think “daddy” is a word to mention the relationship between the father and the daughter is so intimated and fine. But the truth is not, the daughter is scared her father, she doesn’t say anything to her father. I think maybe the poet should choose another appropriate word such as devilish father instead. But I think the aim to construct the tension by misplacing another word is successfully to draw attention to the reader even the reader may have an idea about the father is a good father before read the poem. But the reader will know the truth and overthrow their original imagines to the father and their relationship. In addition to, there is another guy who kills the daughter’s father and sticks the girl with glue. The girl misses her father so much and makes the model of her father when her father is killed by another cruel guy. In this poem, the girl always is a victim to her father and the villain. I think Plath condemns the German, Fascist, and war in this poem. Sylvia Plath uses a series of negative words like the German, swastika, Belsen, Fascist, and brute heart to metaphor the father who the daughter is scared. Plath also uses Jew, the victim in the Fascist society to metaphor the daughter. And Plath uses the roller to symbol the war. For example, Plath uses the roller to mention the Poland was destroyed and scraped flat by the war to emphasize the horror and power of the world war. And I also found the ambiguous condition in this poem. The girl misses her father so much after her father was killed by the villain. So she writes the poem and expresses her feelings which she never talks to her father. But she calls her father is a bastard in the end of this poem after she expresses her miss to her father.
In “Fever 103°”, there are two characters are referred in this poem includes the girl, and her pursuer. It uses second-person point of view to write this poem. From literal meaning of the poem, in my own interpretation, the virginity is portrayed as a girl. This poem talks about the girl warns her lover and pursuer doesn’t touch her body. Plath emphasizes the virginity is dangerous through uses the artful metaphors and images. This title of the poem is paradoxical. Because in the title, Plath uses the hottest temperature “Fever 103°” to describe it is dangerous to touch it, it may kill you. However, Plath describes the dark and frozen image of hell even she mentions the dog, Cerberus who is the guard of the hell. In that way, the reader may confuse why the hottest temperature and the frozen temperature may appear in the same time. In my view, Plath draws attention to the reader successfully through she places another impertinent word in the title. Sylvia Plath uses a series of words and articles like pure, tongue of Cerberus, devilish leopard, flicking of the light, God, lantern, camellia, acetylene to metaphor the virginity in the female. And Plath uses a series of things like sin, snuffed candle, Isadora’s scarves, yellow sullen smokes, radiation, Hiroshima ash, and water to metaphor the sexual behavior which also describes the male. The speaker refers the female body is pure and holy, male shouldn’t touch it.
There are five similarities on two poems, as follows. Firstly, Sylvia Plath uses the second-person point of view to write these two poems. In the second place, there are characters of male and female, and female as the protagonist on these two poems. In third, both perform the relationship between the male and female. And in the poems, Plath uses the negative words represent the females play the role as the victim by the male but the male as the oppressor. What’s more, “Plath uses the styles of confessional poem which emphasizes the intimate.” Last but not the least, Plath both uses the ambiguous and paradoxical title to catch the reader’s attentions.
There are four differences on two poems, as follows. Firstly, Plath uses the allusion from history in the World War I which combines the idea of repressor and the victim in the first one, but the second one is cites the allusion from history facts and Greek mythology. In the second place, characters are in different relationship, the first one is a relationship between the father as an oppressor, the daughter as a victim but the other is a relationship between the female as a victim and the male as a oppressor. What’s more, as a matter of the fact, the first one the daughter is repressed by her father and the villain who kills her father but the other one the female doesn’t repressed by her pursuer, the female just warns her pursuer. Last but not the least, the first one mentions truth but the other one Plath refers the female through the virginity.
From these two poems, I found Plath is a poet different from other traditional female writer. In these two poems, Plath all mentions the female as the sufferer but the male as the oppressor. Plath uses the allusion from political historical truth like Hitler represses and persecute even kill the Jew when he is a president in Germany to satirize the tyrant Hitler and makes connects with the metaphor which metaphor male as the oppressor. Also Plath uses the allusion from historical truth like Isadora Duncan dies due to her scarf was anchored in the wheel to metaphor the sexual behavior destroys the female’s virginity.
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