Movement Description: These poets were against the new critical mode of writing poetry that emphasized on aloofness and impersonality. These confessional poets gave expression to painful personal events through the revelation of personal intimacies and unembarrassed self- exposure. The expression of personal pain is the signature of confessional poetry. All of the major poets of this group, like Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath suffered from several personal difficulties. Destructive family relationship, traumatic childhoods, broken marriages, reasoning mental breakdowns, alcoholism, and drug abuse affected confessional poets, along with psychological disorder.
Poem Analysis: In lines 1-5 Plath describes herself as small since she lives in her father's shoe. This shows how trapped she feels by her dad. In lines 9-5, the writer expresses how huge her father is by saying he is a statue that is a s big as the United States, as if she can not escape him. Throughout the poem Plath expresses her belief that her father is a Nazi, and she is a Jew. This shows that she feels she is a victim of her father and maybe men in general. She uses literary devices to portray this image in lines 29-35 and 42-48. At the end of this poem, the metaphor for the speaker's father and husband (all men potentially), goes from Nazis to vampires. They were living horrors, and now they are undead. Since the speakers father is dead its like she's trying to say that he's haunting her. This poem shows how hard it was for Plath to talk to her father, and she eventually stopped trying. It is addressed to her father and she desperately wants to say something to him, but can't because he's dead. The fat that her father will never be able to read the poem may be one of the reasons why it was written.
Literary Devices: Repetition was used frequently in the poem when Plath needed to emphasize an import phrase, or a significant stanza. It gave the poem a sense of urgency because she wanted the reader to understand how critical everything she said in the poem is. Also, onomatopoeia was used in stanza six because she was trying to speak german, but that is also how someone sounds when they are choking, or trying to clear their throat.
Poem Analysis: In lines 1-5 Plath describes herself as small since she lives in her father's shoe. This shows how trapped she feels by her dad. In lines 9-5, the writer expresses how huge her father is by saying he is a statue that is a s big as the United States, as if she can not escape him. Throughout the poem Plath expresses her belief that her father is a Nazi, and she is a Jew. This shows that she feels she is a victim of her father and maybe men in general. She uses literary devices to portray this image in lines 29-35 and 42-48. At the end of this poem, the metaphor for the speaker's father and husband (all men potentially), goes from Nazis to vampires. They were living horrors, and now they are undead. Since the speakers father is dead its like she's trying to say that he's haunting her. This poem shows how hard it was for Plath to talk to her father, and she eventually stopped trying. It is addressed to her father and she desperately wants to say something to him, but can't because he's dead. The fat that her father will never be able to read the poem may be one of the reasons why it was written.
Literary Devices: Repetition was used frequently in the poem when Plath needed to emphasize an import phrase, or a significant stanza. It gave the poem a sense of urgency because she wanted the reader to understand how critical everything she said in the poem is. Also, onomatopoeia was used in stanza six because she was trying to speak german, but that is also how someone sounds when they are choking, or trying to clear their throat.