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Morning song

Daddy

Structure

-no clear rhyme scheme
-6 stanzas of 3 lines
-stanzas end in full stop

-5 line stanzas
-some internal rhyme
-variety of punctuation to
set pace and show
expression

-3 line stanzas
-internal rhyme
-ends n single line stanza

Poetic devices

-‘love set you going like a fat
gold watch’ metaphor
-‘winds hands’
personification
-‘nakedness… shadows’
enjambment

-‘do’ repetition
-Assonance throughout
-‘stuck in a barb wire
snare’ metaphor

-‘I am the arrow’ –
metaphorical
personification
-‘and I now…foam to wheat’
enjambment
-’pour of tor’ assonance
-’dead’ repetition

-‘little unstrung puppet’
metaphor
-‘like a terrible migraine’
simile
- ‘I should drown’
anaphora

- extended metaphor of
holocaust
-Semantic field of war and
dictatorship
- Contrast of ‘pretty red
heart’ and ‘fat black heart’

-‘into the red…eye’ colour
imagery
-‘flies', 'melts’, ‘hauls’ – strong
adjectives to show forcefulness
and how she is compelled
-references to lions ‘god’s
lioness’ ‘Ariel’(lion of god in
Hebrew)

-‘red and white’ colour
imagery
-’smog’ repetition to
create atmosphere
-semantic field of vanity
and appearance

-childlike, reference

-ideas of female perfection

-female clashes

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Imagery

Ideas and
tone

‘new statue’ stark, sterile,
unattached
‘your moth breath…flickers’
impermanent, unpredictable,
flame-like
‘Victorian nightgown’
conservative, restrictive, lack of
sexuality

-Childbirth and mother
hood
-Detachment
-Confessional

Themes

in a patriarchal society
-escapism and freedom
through suicide
-female empowerment

-Plath had discovered her

Lesbos
-No clear stanza structure
-extended monologue like
stanza, short stanza
following
-ends on conclusive single
line stanza

-domesticity
-the realistic feelings
behind realistic
relationships

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personification of the
flames
-’your liquors seep to me’
metaphor
-’your nauseous capsule?’
rhetorical question

Imagery

-’each dead child coiled, a
white serpent’ child appears
dangerous but colour reference
= innocence, her complicated
feelings towards her children
- ‘folded’ careful and neat, link
to OCD and mental health

‘a million soldiers run,
redcoats’ hyperbolic metaphor
‘The stain on your/Gauze’
blood seeping through
bandage, can’t be stopped
- ‘thumb stump’ matter of fact
realization after illustrative
description

-‘naked and bald in their
furs’ juxtaposition
-‘glittering’ precious and
desirable
- ‘orange lollies on silver
sticks’ colour imagery

-’the air to orange’colour
imagery, semantic field of
fire throughout
-repetitive symbolism and
motif of sheep
-allusions to death through
dark references

-semantic field of flames
and burning
-colour imagery ‘red’
’colourless’ represent
fierceness but emptiness

Ideas of female
perfection and the
expectation of fulfilment
of motherhood
- Outside looking in
perspective
-suppression of individulaity

-being uncomfortable in a
foreign environment,
feeling out of place
-dreary and depressing tone
-ideas of other worlds and
escapism

-allusions to narcotics and
intoxication ‘opiates’ found in
poppies
-‘little bloody skirts’ reference
to females, women being
troublesome
-self harm and self destruction

-written the year of her suicide
-set in winter, period before
spring/rebirth
-Sylvia had suffered from
bulimia, body image
-munich reference to Germany,
her father was german but
wider links to holocaust

-ted hughes also wrote a
poem of the same title
-plath moved to England,
idea of being a foreigner
-space references, era of the
space race

-written in1962 shortly after
plath confirmed hughes
affair
-misunderstanding of self
harm in that era
-60’s renowned for drug use

Ideas and
tone

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Preparation for death
Conveys how she would
feel complete in death
- Complex attitude
towards motherhood

-Plaths last written poem
She did not kill her children
opening a wider context
- Suicide and depression still
widely misunderstood and
interpreted at the time

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Context

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Themes

* Pleasure and pain
Disappointment in love
* Despair and anger
* Motherhood
* Freedom in suicide

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-pleasure in self harm
-intoxication and drugs ‘pill
to kill’ ‘pink fizz’
- ‘kamikaze man’ self
sacrifice for a greater
cause

- Links to massacres based
on discrimination such as
the Indians and KKK
-occurs in kitchen setting,
perhaps social commentary
on expectations of women

* Pleasure and pain
* Despair and anger
* Freedom in suicide

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Disappointment in love
* Despair and anger
* Motherhood
* Perfection and the
female form

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* Pleasure and pain
Disappointment in love
* Despair and anger
* Complicated
relationships
* Feelings of being lost

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* Pleasure and pain
Disappointment in love
* Despair and anger
* Motherhood
* Freedom in suicide



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