Alisha+Clark

__**Quotes:**__ "Poetry is the doorway to the soul." -Floria

"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."-Thomas Hardy

__**Ode:**__ Knowing that when I fall; cry; call You will be there to save me again Even when your deepest fears appear; no one hears; you drop that lonely tear You will be there to make sure I don't ever feel your pain I'm still you're daughter; you're seed; you're doll I hope your light, the light that's been guiding me through my years, will shine through me. Because one day, I will be a mother myself and would only want her to learn from the best too.

__**Sonnet:**__ Let me not fall to the human mind set It is not my true beauty. Not desirable. Humans become lost in the mind. True bet. When worlds alter, people find death or life disabled <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">These are worlds of unknown, I have warned <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">It has been marked and taped with care <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You would be the one to tear it? you fool! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is not love found in the human mind, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is an altered world in a cold world. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Love will not stay there in that cold place. Wilt <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But, it will travel down, crawling near the heart. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A place that is not a place of hopeless <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But, holds all true care even to the edge <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I know there will be true love found upon there.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">__**I was raised by:**__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was raised by my mother to be a dreamer <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">If I dreamed on that last shooting star, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">One day I was destined to be someone special <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was the single sunflower <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Blossoming and blooming through concrete <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My roots will stay strong. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I am my mother's and father's lost dreams <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">That finally came to life before their eyes <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Proud to be the only train that can <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I refuse to let money confuse my mind <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">for God has me in his hands <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was raised by the best <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I wouldn't want anymore, any less.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">__**July, my love:**__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">How many years have I let slipped by me <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I have longed for the humid air again <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The sun that kissed my skin <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Climbing its' up legs to my arms <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">leaving a brown new tone <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In every corner, the light met me <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In every corner, I couldn't find you <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">It was only by your voice, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is what carried me to your location <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">of July days <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Since, it started off with footsteps <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Going towards the pool <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Laughter traveled right behind us <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Then it was holding hands <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our palms sweating after they're kissed for so long <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But, it was a different face when we hugged <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">All the world is changed, I thought <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is what I've longed for, I thought <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I meant to be held by you <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">To smell you're must from a game <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Running, loud, smiling with your friends <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Then to me, happily <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our palms would meet again, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">As we went home where our first kiss was made

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__**Poet Statement:**__ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">When I am writing poetry, I usually go with my feelings and what is on my mind. I am a free verse poet. I do not follow the different rules of poetry. To me, my poems have a flowing rhythm, but someone else that reads it, won't notice. I believe, they have to feel as I do to understand where I'm coming from. I admire artist like Dr. Seuss throughout my childhood, even now. I know them by heart and truly can say, "He's a work of art." But, I know I'm not at his level of poetry. In fact, I do not label myself to a high bar, but, I was always determined to learn how to write poetry. I came down to my final lesson, and learned, poetry to me is what is in my heart. Free versing has helped me accomplish that the most.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">__**Sylvia Plath's three poems:**__

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__ Childless Woman __ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rattles its pod, the moon <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discharges itself from the tree with nowhere to go.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The womb

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My landscape is a hand with no lines, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The roads bunched to a knot, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The knot myself,

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Myself the rose you acheive--- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">This body, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">This ivory

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ungodly as a child's shriek. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Loyal to my image,

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Uttering nothing but blood--- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Taste it, dark red! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And my forest

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My funeral, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And this hill and this <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Gleaming with the mouths of corpses. || <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/Childless_Woman

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//**Deeper Understanding:**// <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The author’s uses tones to describe a woman’s all time low of experiencing infertility. Like many of Plyth’s poems, she speaks of grief. Her tone, seen full of grief. Sylvia Plath says in the first stanza, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"The womb <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Rattles its pod, the moon <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Discharges itself from the tree with nowhere to go." <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">She blames her miscarriage upon herself, like most women. But, then again, she isn’t the normal woman. Sylvia Plath doesn’t do so well with death. She experiences and notices death all around her, however, is never successful with her own. I think that kills her deep down. The image that she set is her body. She goes into much detail, the poem reads, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Ungodly as a child's shriek. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Loyal to my image," <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Her body being changed and having to twist and turn to fight to have the baby. It turned to grief as she brings in a shower of blood over the poem. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Uttering nothing but blood--- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Taste it, dark red! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And my forest" <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">It was only at the end, when she mentions the funeral, is where she closes her thoughts. She uses enjambment, because of this exactly. Within eight-teen lines, she addresses her experiment of childbirth. She goes into a lot of physical and sights. During this poem, she has a miscarriage, which puts her into a death knot again.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__ Kindness __ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Kindness glides about my house. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Dame Kindness, she is so nice! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The blue and red jewels of her rings smoke <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the windows, the mirrors <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are filling with smiles.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">What is so real as the cry of a child? <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A rabbit's cry may be wilder <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But it has no soul. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sugar can cure everything, so Kindness says. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sugar is a necessary fluid,

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Its crystals a little poultice. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">O kindness, kindness <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sweetly picking up pieces! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Japanese silks, desperate butterflies, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">May be pinned any minute, anesthetized.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And here you come, with a cup of tea <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Wreathed in steam. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The blood jet is poetry, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">There is no stopping it. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You hand me two children, two roses. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">http://www.internal.org/Sylvia_Plath/Childless_Woman

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**//Deeper Understanding://** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The author’s uses different tones to create a solid tone as a conclusion. In the first few lines, Plath gives the reader a detailed look into her emotions through anger. She explains why she is angry and blames it on kindness. On the first two lines, Plath says, " Kindness glides about my house. Dame Kindness, she is so nice!" Kindness is more of a characteristic in the act, but she describes Kindness as a person, which gives more interest. Towards the end of the first stanza she says, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"The blue and red jewels of her rings smoke <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the windows, the mirrors <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are filling with smiles." <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">She fits five stanzas with so much emotion. She shows a mixture of jealousy at times and then at the end, hints of why, leaving an conclusion of her thoughts. The poem uses enjambment, because she is having thoughts of what kindness is and only comes to a solid conclusion at the end. She ends the poem with the gift kindness has left her. She says on her 20th line, "You hand me two children, two roses." The gift was, that kindness handed her two children, two roses. These children, roses, are her pregnancies.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">__ Daddy __ <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Any more, black shoe <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In which I have lived like a foot <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">For thirty years, poor and white, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You do not do, you do not do

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Daddy, I have had to kill you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You died before I had time-- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ghastly statue with one gray toe <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Big as a Frisco seal

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And a head in the freakish Atlantic <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Where it pours bean green over blue <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the waters off beautiful Nauset. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I used to pray to recover you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ach, du.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the German tongue, in the Polish town <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Scraped flat by the roller <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Of wars, wars, wars. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But the name of the town is common. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">My Polack friend

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Says there are a dozen or two. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">So I never could tell where you <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Put your foot, your root, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I never could talk to you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The tongue stuck in my jaw.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">It stuck in a barb wire snare. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ich, ich, ich, ich, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I could hardly speak. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I thought every German was you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And the language obscene

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">An engine, an engine <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Chuffing me off like a Jew. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I began to talk like a Jew. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I think I may well be a Jew.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Are not very pure or true. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I may be a bit of a Jew.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I have always been scared of //you//, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And your neat mustache <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And your Aryan eye, bright blue. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Not God but a swastika <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">So black no sky could squeak through. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Every woman adores a Fascist, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The boot in the face, the brute <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brute heart of a brute like you.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">You stand at the blackboard, daddy, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the picture I have of you, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A cleft in your chin instead of your foot <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But no less a devil for that, no not <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Any less the black man who

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Bit my pretty red heart in two. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I was ten when they buried you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">At twenty I tried to die <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And get back, back, back to you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I thought even the bones would do.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">But they pulled me out of the sack, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And they stuck me together with glue. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And then I knew what to do. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">I made a model of you, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">A man in black with a Meinkampf look

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And a love of the rack and the screw. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And I said I do, I do. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">So daddy, I'm finally through. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The black telephone's off at the root, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The voices just can't worm through.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">If I've killed one man, I've killed two-- <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The vampire who said he was you <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And drank my blood for a year, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Seven years, if you want to know. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Daddy, you can lie back now.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">There's a stake in your fat black heart <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And the villagers never liked you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">They are dancing and stamping on you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">They always //knew// it was you. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through. ||

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**//Deeper Understanding://** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The author’s use of different uses of metaphors creates image to describe her relationship with her father. A metaphor is a speech in which a word or phase is applied to an object in which is not literally applicable. An example of her use of metaphor, that creates an image to describe her relationship is, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ghastly statue with one gray toe <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Big as a Frisco seal". <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sylvia Plath’s poem is constructed of 80 lines, divided into 16 stanzas without any rhythm scheme. She takes the memories of her father and gives them in a new style of metaphors that help describe him to the reader. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And your neat mustache <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">And your Aryan eye, bright blue. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--". <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">She gives the reader details of his features on his face. She also hints out his personality and then spoke on how that made her feel. In the 10th stanza, Plath writes, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Not God but a swastika <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">So black no sky could squeak through. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Every woman adores a Fascist, <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">The boot in the face, the brute <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brute heart of a brute like you." <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Her dad is very strict or uptight. Not much of a dad that goes out and play games all the time. She compares him to a Nazi, which is a German soldier during the Holocaust. There commands were to kill Jews daily. She then describes how she feels on their relationship, by admitting, " <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I have always been scared of //you,".// She goes on with describing him as a person that is God like; Nazi like; and like an vampire in a compressed poem compared to many other poets that have tired to take on this creative challenge.