Poetry Essay

The use of Tone, Figures of speech, and Meanings to show how one feels towards their father in “Daddy” and “My Papa’s Waltz” The poem “Daddy” written by Sylvia Plath and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, are both poems about a child’s feelings towards their father. In “Daddy” the author takes a mean and hatred approach to talk about her feelings for her late father. Plath tells about her whole life …

…shirt”. (15-16). So in the end after all of this abuse, the author still as longing love for his father. Holding on to him as he is leaded to bed. Although Plath’s poem differs from Roenthke’s in obscene language, but the two poems share hate for their fathers. Plath’s is a more mental abuse while Roenthke’s is leaning more toward physical abuse. These two poems are very good examples of great