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Comment 54 of 64, added on March 13th, 2006 at 6:23 AM.
elle, for someone who has a degree you say some remarkably stupid things,
this is a forum where you discuss and voice ideas even if they seem wrong,
that is the whole point. to openly insult someone else is moronic, you
actually suck the big willy.
john from United Kingdom
Comment 53 of 64, added on February 23rd, 2006 at 6:43 AM.
First, I'd say this poem is striking- it's tone and rhythm really build up
an atmosphere of anger which is so uncomfortably intense that I almost feel
I'm intruding. Such deep, candid emotions are actually (in my opinion),
rarely seen in 20th century poetry in such a stark way. The unusual public
fascination with Plath's life (not given to many other poets) makes the
poem easier to make sense of and somehow more emotionally accessible, as we
know exactly what emotional damage she had sustained (and, of course the
irony of us knowing her ultimate fate).
I'd also say that I think it's a real shame that people post half-baked
and, even worse, badly written comments on here. This website is a great
idea and I've yet to find a similar one for all poetry with the possibility
of posting comments. At least the humorous ones make for light-reading,
especially the purple alien one which actually made me chuckle, but there's
a lot of badly thought out stuff on here, probably as a result of people's
ignorance and lack of intelligence really. I think these guys are out of
their depth here- back to Roald Dahl, people!
Anyhoo, e-mail me if you're in London and are interested in discussing this
kind of stuff.
Michael from United Kingdom
Comment 52 of 64, added on January 28th, 2006 at 5:33 PM.
I do not BELIEVE some of these comments. "Elle" BRAGS about her double
(dble) degree in English & Psychology, and denigrates a 14 year old (? how
does she know the age?) for her "not graspoing the English language", while
her own comments are replte with English errors in spelling, grammar ans
capitalizations. Talk about being BLIND to yourself!! Maybe she should have
concentrated on ONE major, and definitely neither one of those two, 'cause
she sucks at both. She confuses inappropriate & base insults ad hominem
with good criticism and slams "misuse" of the language by Jennifer with an
atrociously written polemic. Bah.
Oh - and she reeks with unjustified and unjustifiable arrogance. I side
with Jennifer. Go, girl.
Incidentally, I never saw so many gross mistakes in the writing of comments
devoted to a poem in the English language, and so much misinformation and
misinterpretation, as in what I just read. YAAAWN.
Genevieve from the US
Genevieve StClaire from United States
Comment 51 of 64, added on January 28th, 2006 at 12:47 AM.
A collage of childhood images of the father, a single shoe, the accent, the
foreign phrases, and the legacy of living with a fear of sickness leading
to death, afraid to even sneeze. The pain of the child's unresolved grief,
not permitted to say goodbye or have closure, abandoned and insecure. The
feeling of that the body has somehow been lost and is just missing and
needs to be found and put back together. Later in therapy, an image of the
father is sculpted, to facilitate dialogue with the father, and perhaps a
trip to Germany or Poland is taken, to trace the family roots, finding
familiarity in the accents and names, but no direct connection with the
father. The trip is an attempt to bring closure, but it is the train ride,
so evocative of the images of Jews and Gypsies going to the camps, that
provides the key to bring closure. The child 'demonizes' the father as the
Nazi, thus justifying her anger at the abandonment of death and enabling
her to 'kill' the demon and it's hold upon her life and emotions. Grief and
abandonment looms again at the death of her marriage and evokes her earlier
grief, as she struggles once more to 'kill' the new demon of abandonment
and release it's 7-year grip on her heart, mind and energies.
Pip from United States
Comment 50 of 64, added on December 13th, 2005 at 7:16 PM.
This poem "DADDY" shows how much she really did hate her dad. And that he
must have done something to make her feel this way and that is what she is
trying to tell everyone!
Katie Leigh
Comment 49 of 64, added on November 20th, 2005 at 11:30 PM.
Amber, please realize that the Nazis persecuted the Jews. Not the Germans.
Mark from United States
Comment 48 of 64, added on November 16th, 2005 at 11:15 PM.
In the 10th stanza she says "Not God but a swastika" what does this mean?
This is obviously referencing her father but I do not understand the
meaning behind it. Is she just using a visual symbol to reiterate her
feelings toward her father to the reader?
Diane from United States
Comment 47 of 64, added on November 16th, 2005 at 1:45 AM.
Jessica,
'Plath did not have major problems with her husband'.
Um, yes she did. In fact, he was already having an affair with a woman he
later married, when Plath wrote this.
The line 'coming through the telephone(sic)' is rumouredly a reference to
overhearing her husband's lover on the telephone.
Do you actually know anything about Plath or have you just seen the movie
and think you do? Incidentally, the film was not endorsed by Plath's family
who hated it enough to prevent the studio using any of Plath's poems in the
film. That fact alone, should give you an answer as to how accurate the
film is.
Elle
Elle from Australia
Comment 46 of 64, added on November 11th, 2005 at 4:45 PM.
Sylvia's father died when she was 8 years old. Despite the first impression
of the poem "Daddy", Plath adorded her father and did not have major
problems with her husband.
Sylvia was upset that she did not get to say goodbye to her father before
he died.
We must look beyond the immediate impressions of the poem's lyrics before
understanding it.
Jessica Lynn Harris from United States
Comment 45 of 64, added on November 11th, 2005 at 3:51 AM.
the line in the poem 'I thought every German was like you' is in the past
tense hinting that probably its abt her entrapment by' and then triumph
over the past, the demons in her past. I HTINK like many poets, she creates
personal myths that express most powerfully her sense of reality- the jew
and german relatoinship is a very powerful myth she uses.
priyanka from India
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elle, for someone who has a degree you say some remarkably stupid things,
this is a forum where you discuss and voice ideas even if they seem wrong,
that is the whole point. to openly insult someone else is moronic, you
actually suck the big willy.
john from United Kingdom