Daddy-
1. Reflection: Write a personal response to Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" - you may answer one or two of the reading questions if you like, or discuss your feelings about the way Plath presents herself and her relationship both to her father and her husband.
Silvia Plath's "Daddy" seemed to be a very personal piece suggesting her final or assumed final goodbye to her resent of her father or the pain she has endured with his life. I also got the feeling that there was much to do about her husband within the poem, the lines of relationship between father and lover may have been blurring under this intense emotion, or a very feminist perspective.
Not knowing Plath's personal history, it's hard to say wether I can really understand the writing, and also there were many physical locations that I wouldn't have recognized unless I had googled them. However, she does make it adaptable and personable by using layman terms such as: "The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you."
-That's easily understandable, and anyone can feel the emotion she writes about. First thing in the morning to read this, wasn't the most pleasant of things, but it does give me some sense of peace as to how things are now, versus the time of the holocaust for hundreds of thousands of people. It helps me to respect the past in some ways.
2. Looking ahead. Find out something about the story of Demeter and Persephone (you may also see them referred to as Ceres and Proserpine). What do you think are some universal themes in that myth?
Universal themes:
The disguised fruit, FORBIDDEN FRUITS seen in everything from Adam and Eve, to Snow White, possibly touching on temptation and the outcome quite possibly being irreversible.
I also noticed a lot of sentiment around suffering, and how even these gods are fooled and being subjected to suffering of great amounts,
or how Demeter may have been so stubborn that it comes back to her in the end, she is helped by zeus and Hermes but tricked by Hades in the end. Suffering then for the 4 months every year.
Silvia Plath's "Daddy" seemed to be a very personal piece suggesting her final or assumed final goodbye to her resent of her father or the pain she has endured with his life. I also got the feeling that there was much to do about her husband within the poem, the lines of relationship between father and lover may have been blurring under this intense emotion, or a very feminist perspective.
Not knowing Plath's personal history, it's hard to say wether I can really understand the writing, and also there were many physical locations that I wouldn't have recognized unless I had googled them. However, she does make it adaptable and personable by using layman terms such as: "The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you."
-That's easily understandable, and anyone can feel the emotion she writes about. First thing in the morning to read this, wasn't the most pleasant of things, but it does give me some sense of peace as to how things are now, versus the time of the holocaust for hundreds of thousands of people. It helps me to respect the past in some ways.
2. Looking ahead. Find out something about the story of Demeter and Persephone (you may also see them referred to as Ceres and Proserpine). What do you think are some universal themes in that myth?
Universal themes:
The disguised fruit, FORBIDDEN FRUITS seen in everything from Adam and Eve, to Snow White, possibly touching on temptation and the outcome quite possibly being irreversible.
I also noticed a lot of sentiment around suffering, and how even these gods are fooled and being subjected to suffering of great amounts,
or how Demeter may have been so stubborn that it comes back to her in the end, she is helped by zeus and Hermes but tricked by Hades in the end. Suffering then for the 4 months every year.