السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
هذا شرح وافي لقصيدة دادي..رابع انجليزي..
واتمنى من الاداره اضافته لمكتبة القصائد..
Daddy
By(slyvia plath)
Central idea of the poem
slyvia plath in her poem( daddy) expresses intense emotions towards her father and her disastrous relationship with her husband.plath lost her
father at age of ten,when she was a small child.Her father was a German immigrant and professor in American university.
The speaker creates a figurative image of her father using different metaphors,images and similies to describe her relationship with her father .He is like( black shoe) that stretches across the united states,like a God,like a nazi,like a swastika,and a vampire.Her father is nazi while she is like a jew and victim of him.
Slyvia also declares with this poem that she gets her revenge or she recovers,claiming that she has killed both her father and her husband(she forgets them ).
The POEM SHOWS her struggle to declared that no mattars how terrible her father was and how much he remains in her mind.she is now throuogh with him or succeded in living life without him .
The poem also talks about the relationship between man and woman,love,marrige and war.
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Daddy
By Sylvia Plath
STANZA 1 :-
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time---
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one grey toe
Big as a Frisco seal
And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.
Explanation
(line 1-8)
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time---
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
The poem starts with the speaker declaring that she will no longer put up ( she will forget her father and will live without him happily). She compares her father with the black shoe, in which she lived for thirty years poor, helpless and scared. The image of the shoe shows the harsh life of Sylvia Plath. The speaker is poor and would not dare to breathe or sneeze, she feels trapped and scared.
The speaker further says to her father that he died early, she did not get time to know each other. She is sad and angry for her father. She is depressed, upset and shocked and therefore, she makes a violent sentiment. She also says that she will live normal life without him and he will no longer be present in her memories and life.
Line 8 shows the confused feeling of the speaker. The speaker uses Marble-heavy image which means that she refers to the heavy corpse or a marble grave stone of her father. ( the image also refers to the hard heart of her father).
The image of her father as a "bag full of God" shows that her father controlled her world. The speaker's life is full of his memories because of his early death, so he seem to her as powerful as God.
Line (9-13)
Ghastly statue with one grey toe
Big as a Frisco seal
And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
These lines shows us the image of the speaker's father as a statue. But he is not normal statue, he is ghastly and huge. One of its grey toe is as big as a frisco (as in San Francisco California).
The speaker describes the Atlantic as " freakish" strange but it sounds pretty, pouring, its waters ( waves) green as a bean, over the blue of the ocean. The speaker also says that Nauset, a region on the shore is beautiful.
These lines show us that statue stretches (spreads) from coast to coast of the united statues, with a toe in the pacific and a head in the Atlantic ( the statue is the image of the speaker's dead father in her mind.
Line (14-15)
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.
The speaker says that she used to pray to "recover" him. She wants to live without him and she does not pray to get her father back any more. "Ach" "du" a phrase in German actually means " oh , you". Plath's father was a German immigrant, that's why she is writing this little sigh in his language. There is conflict in her mind, sometimes she wants him back from the dead and sometimes she wants him no more in her life.
STANZA 2 :
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend
Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.
It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene
Line (16-18)
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
The speaker is talking about the German language but in a polish town that has been destroyed by the war. The speaker does not just say something like "destroyed by war", she says it has been "scraped flat by the roller of wars". ( this make us think about the horrible weapon, like bomb used in the wars).
Then, she repeats the word "wars" three times, giving us the idea that this place has been flattened (destroyed) by more than one war.
Line ( 19-23)
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend
Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
Now she talks more about the Polish town, its name is common. The speaker's Polish friend says that there are a bunoh of town in Polack with the same name. because there are so many towns with the same name, the speaker will never know from where her father immigrated. She will never be able to tell her father exactly born place.
Line (24-28)
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.
It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
The speaker also laments that she could never talk to her father because her tongue always stuck. Her tongue traps like a barb wire share. Her tongue seems to get stuck so badly that she can only say l, l, l, l,…….Why did her tongue stick? We are not sure. May be because she is nervous and sacred or may be she is not very good at speaking German. She says that she could hardly talk to her father or she can hardly speak at all.
Line (29-30)
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene
Speaker is telling that she thought every German was her father, and she found his language dirty and offensive. All German seemed to her like her father. She got nervous when she speaks to Germans or German language.
These lines show us that the speaker is deeply disturbed by memories of her father. She sees him in every German person she comes across.
Daddy
Stanza 3
(lines 31-33)
The speaker thinks herself like a Jew, who were treated badly by Germans during the World War II. She mentions the World War II camps like Dachau, Auschwitz and Belson, where Germans took Jews in the train. The speaker is so terrified by the Germans and their language that she imagines if they are taking her in train towards a horrible death. Chuffing (onomatopoeia) the sound of train.
(Lines 34-37)
The speaker is so opposed to German language that she begins to talk like a Jew (afraid and fearful). Jews struggle a lot against the fear and terror of Germans (she is Jewish and her father is German in her imaginations).
Tyrol is a mountain region with snow-peaks and the beer of Vienna (A capital of Italy), snow is a symbol of purity and clear beers (transparent) are in contrast with German Nazi.
(Lines 38-40)
The speaker talks about her gypsy ancestress (probably her mother). Then she talks about her “weird luck” and her Pack of Tarot Card. So, she is unlucky because gypsies like Jews were killed by the Nazi’s (Germans) during the world war because Jews were considered to be impure.
(Lines 41-45)
The speaker describes that she has always been afraid of her father. Then she goes on to describe her father’s German characteristics.
“Luffwaffe” is the German word for air force during the World War II.
“Godbledygo” is her father strange language.
The “neat mustache” and blue “Aryan eye” describe her father physically like German. Her father is a terrible combination of Hitler’s mustache and bright blue eyes (he was cruel). Germans were super ior to Jews and gypsies. The speaker refers to her father as” Panzer-man” a German-tank driver, this further shows that her father is terrible and cruel.
Stanza 4
(Lines46-50)
The speaker says that her father is like a “Swastika” Nazi symbol of evil. He is not normal “Swastika”, he is so black that he blocks the sky. The speaker has connected her father with fascists and with their brutality. But she says that women love fascists even if they are cruel and brute. She criticizes brutes (men, fascists) and women who love brutes. Her father was a cruel fascist.
(Lines51-54)
These lines are pretty clear-cut. Plath’s father was a professor. The speaker is looking at a picture of her father in the picture he is standing at a black board, teaching in the classroom. The speaker says that her father has a cleft in his chin instead of his foot. Then she compares her father to a devil, who have a cleft in his foot like a devil.
(Lines 55-57)
The speaker further says that the cleft in the wrong place did not make the speaker’s father less devil and less cruel man. He is cruel because he bit his heart into two (torture her a lot). The speaker says that her father is a dark person which means that he is cruel and dark.
These lines show the contrast of speaker to her father. The father is huge, cruel and black while the speaker is red, pretty and victim of his father. Her father died when the speaker was ten years old and ten years later, when she was twenty, she attempted to die to get back to her father.
When she was twenty she attempted to die so that could come closer to him and buried near him. These lines show that she is disturbed, and she tried to kill herself in order to be reconnected with her father.
Stanza 5
(Lines 61-67)
The speaker tried to die but did not succeed. They (her family) rescued her from killing (suicide) and pulled her out of the sack (danger) of death by giving her treatment and cure. Then she decided to make a model of her father by marrying a man like him. But she also found him black, devil and cruel like Hitler. “Meinkamph look” ( a book written by Hitler). She was expecting her husband like her father (she hoped to get her husband love because she did not get her father love who died early but she was unlucky). But after marrying with him (Ted Hughes), she found him Hitler fascist and black. He was a kind of person who like to torture others like Hitler.
(Lines 68-last)
Now she decides to forget them (father and husband). She does not need them anymore. She will throw them away from her memories and they will have not affect her daily life anymore.
She says that the phone is cut-off, because he is dead. The father and the daughter can no longer communicate. She is now able to forget her father and her husband. She made a model of her father and married him.
She is calling him “Vampire” already she called him “Hitler”. She called him “Vampire” because he drank her blood for seven years. He was cruel. She asks her father to lie back means she did not want to remember him. He is black and cruel.
She imagines in her mind that the villagers also do not like her father. They were happy and dancing on his dead body, because he was cruel and problematic.
In the last line she called her father “bastard” and will live without his memories.
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