Poetry is often written as a result of reflecting on an intense emotional experience or a significant event

Q Poetry is a lot written as a result of reflecting on an intense steamy experience or a significant event. Examine the techniques used by one poet to convey the significance of an experience or event which gave mounting to a rime or a sequence of poetrys.Daddyis a very emotional poem by Sylvia Plath. She wrote it just before she committed suicide in the early 1960s. It is a very angry poem which is centred around Plaths relationship with her return, who died when she was some(prenominal) younger. Much of her choler and emotion arises from this event. scorn the fact that he has been dead for some measure, it is still certain that she feels touched by it.The first verse of the poem creates the trace followed through and throughout, and helps to set the rest of the poem in contextYou do non do not do, you do not doAnymore, black sideslipIn which I have lived wish well a leg itFor thirty years, poor and white, except daring to breathe or Achoo.Here, the poet is stating that they have lived like a radix for thirty years, a simile that is giving the sense that she has matt-up oppressed for her integral purport, as living like a foot is a claustrophobic image, showing how she cannot break free of the black shoe which it is made appargonnt is re familiariseing her daddy figure. The opening line, You do not do is similar to how a parent would tell a child off, further the poet is reversing the role here, and so her anger at her father is shown straight a panache. The whole of the first verse is an extended metaphor, to convey the poets anger at savor trapped all of her life by the death of her father. The line only daring to breathe of Achoo. shows how this has given her a sense of claustrophobia, not macrocosm able to escape from a black shoe black show throughout the poem, giving connotations of evil, the poet exaggerates in order to express her feelings on her father, and her anger at his death. In verse two, she refers to him as marble heav y, a smasher full of god, which represents how he has been weighing her down. The use of the enunciate God is to give the sense that her father has been the all-powerful force in her life until now.Daddy, I have had to kill you. reveals the intent behind her writing the poem, to change her to purge her father out of her life at stand firm. For the poet, Daddy is a cathartic experience, and this is communicated to the reader because her anger is apparent in the accusing tone used, shes addressing the problems in her life and pointing the finger at him. She describes him here in the stake verse as a Ghastly statue saying that at that place is something blue about him, statue refers to how he has been immovable, ever-present in her life even aft(prenominal) his death. The image of him described in verses two and three focuses on the scale leaf of him. One gray toe, big as a Frisco seal/And a head in the freakish Atlantic he is continental. Its well-nigh as if he is too much, and the poet cannot handle the amount that she has built him up in her mind, so much that it almost takes over. But, not all of her feelings towards her father are negativeI used to pray to recover you,Ach, du.The note of hanker present here prevents the poem from simply becoming an angry rant, its die that she poet is conflicted on how to feel. The fact that she uses the Ger gentlemans gentleman language also helps to emphasise how much he has impacted her life, as he was German-American.The tone of the poem is deepen by the harsh, building rhythm, and the fricative language used. The rhythm builds into a straighten out of crescendo, and the language used contains a lot of speech with an oo sound, similar to the word you, the accusation coming through, her anger at him showing. The repetition of certain words like wars,wars,wars, ich,ich,ich,ich and back, back, back add to the marching rhythm which drives the poem. By the time we get to the join of this long rant of a poem t he imaginativeness relating to her father deliberately induces confused with that of Nazi atrocities. Furthermore, sometimes Plaths attitude towards her father seems to be more suited to that of a comer how for instance she sees him as the black man who/Bit my pretty red heart in two. The experience of her fathers death had led her to identify with victims of Nazism, which could be seen as in particular self-indulgent on her part, as the comparison seems to be out of balance.An locomotive, an engineChuffing me off like a Jew.A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.I began to talk like a Jew.I think I may well be a Jew.And similarly, her comparisons of her father to a NaziI have unceasingly been scared of you,With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygooAnd your neat mustache,And your Aryan eye, bright blue.Panzer-man Panzer-man, O YouThis dynamic she paints of her, the victim, and her father, the oppressor is intelligibly an exaggeration. Her fathers death, however, has made her so angry a t him that she sees it fit to draw such(prenominal) comparisons. Her experience of her fathers death has forced her to identify with Jews, oppressed by Nazis, the way she has felt oppressed by her father for her whole life. But, this aspect of the poem is juxtaposed with the poet addressing her father in an intimate way, she describes him here as a Panzer-man, representing the glamour of the Second World War, a sort of figure of longing. She refers to father as daddy You stand at the blackboard, daddy/In the encounter I have of you. This emphasises how she has been unable to move on, he has never become a father to her, he is frozen in time as her daddy, although he is still a figure of authority to her.It is because of this unfitness to move on from the death of her father that she states she has made a stick of him, in her husband, A man in black with a Meinkampf look. Its almost as if her husband has been a substitute for her father being slay in her life, and in the end, he does her no good either, she says he drank my dividing line for a year. referring to how he drained life from her, and in marrying a man that reminds her of her father, it did not offer a solution at all.The poem acts as a way of exorcising her father from her life, but she also refers to her husband in this aspect If Ive killed one man Ive killed two., the poem has been a stake through the heart of both her daddy figure and her husband, referenced to in the last verse (Theres a stake in your fat black heart the poem is the stake, it has killed him). By the end of the poem when she claims Daddy, daddy, you bastard, Im through., it can be interpreted in more than one way. The first, that she is through with her daddy that she has exorcised him from her life at last. But secondly, that it has been too much, that the burden has killed her Sylvia Plath committed suicide soon after the poem was written.Daddy is full of emotion. It allows the poet to exorcise her father from her life, and so it is conflicted and features anger, love and the accusing tone highlights the poets feelings towards her father, how she hates him for his death early in her life, but there are hints of longing throughout. The Nazi imagery used in the poem could be said to be self-indulgent of the poet, but it is perhaps confirm in that she has carried the burden of mourning for her father for the majority of her life. The poet shows her father as an evil figure, so it is easy for the reader to sympathise with her, although it is important to intend that the image she paints of him is exaggerated and so the only bad thing he did was to die too early in Plaths life. And so, the poem could be interpreted as a rant at her dead father, but to the poet, hes been present in her mind throughout her life, and Daddy was how she was able to rid herself of him.