ENGL 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suicide Attempt, Sylvia Plath, Oedipus Complex
14 Nov 2014
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Daddy by sylvia plath (1) black shoe poor and white . Contrast in colour. (2) marble heavy, a bag full of god, comparing her father to a god. Ghastly statue with one grey toe. then putting him down. (3) i used to pray to recover you . And your aryan eye, bright blue. comparing her father then to a person that of the aryan race which. Hitler preferred. (10) not god, but a swastika so black no sky could squeak through . God to fully being a mean german soldier (swastika). The swastika is compared to a sun where no light could shed through off because it was so evil. (12) at twenty i tried to die and get back, back, back to you . Reference to sylvia"s first suicide attempt. (15) the vampire who said he was you . Comparing her husband to a vampire, modelled after her father: the cold war and ethical binaries.
