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Blogs Week 8
Mar. 4th, 2012 08:05 pmPart 1:
In "The Writer" by Richard Wilber, the author writes about the process of growing up using an extended metaphor that are recognized throughout the poem. Wilber writes about an event where he is standing outside of his daughter's room listening to her describing the ways in which she has grown up. Wilber mentions in the third stanza "Young as she is, the stuff of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy". In these two lines, Wilbur is saying that his daughter has gone through many things like a grown up although she is still at a young age in her life. Furthermore into the poem, Wilbur tells a story of a starling that was trapped in his daughter's room two years ago and how he watched it escape through a hard, long process "And how for helpless hour, through the crack of the door, we watched the sleek, wild, dark and iridescent creature batter against the brilliance". In the end, through many tries to escape the young bird was finally able to escape through the window. For half of the poem, Wilbur compares his daughter to the starling having to go through many hardship in order to get to the outside world so similarly his daughter has also had a great load of burden before she could become a grown up. At the end of the poem he wishes his daughter what he had wished for her before in the third stanza a "lucky passage" in which represents the transition into adulthood.
"Packing for the Future" by Lorna Crozier is also about the process of growing up in life. In the first three stanzas, the author writes about a pair of socks that accompany one's walking path. It's almost like the author is comparing the socks you put on your feet represents the place you came from and the people that help you take your first steps "you cannot go without the hope socks bring you, the way they hold you to the earth. At least one pair must be new, must be as blue as a wish hand-knit by your mother in her sleep." The following stanzas also talk about things one must bring on their journey in life that reminds them of where they came from even though they could be for no practical uses "Perhaps the key you've kept though it doesn't fit any lock you know, the photograph that keeps you sane." Crozier continues on giving advice to a person who is leaving their home using the things that they could bring with them not necessarily for any survival needs but instead reminding them that they must not forget who they are and should carry their heritage, memories and dreams wherever they might go.
Part 2:
Sylvia Plath was born in October 27, 1932 and died in February 11, 1963 when she was only 30 from a carbon monoxide gas suicide. According to wikipedia, she was only eight when her father died; however, in the poem "Daddy" it is mentioned that they buried her dad when she was ten which is inaccurate information. But it is true when she mentioned that she had tried to kill herself during the age of twenty. Sylvia Plath has always suffered from depression which lead to her death later in life. Her poem let out a tone of anger towards her father. She probably chose to write about her life that way because she has always been on the down side of emotions and the way she expresses herself due to the loss of her father. In the poem it is almost like she is very angry with her father for dying " They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through." Plath would probably not agree with Winterson since according to "Daddy" it seems like what Plath writes about her life is one hundred percent the truth.
In "The Writer" by Richard Wilber, the author writes about the process of growing up using an extended metaphor that are recognized throughout the poem. Wilber writes about an event where he is standing outside of his daughter's room listening to her describing the ways in which she has grown up. Wilber mentions in the third stanza "Young as she is, the stuff of her life is a great cargo, and some of it heavy". In these two lines, Wilbur is saying that his daughter has gone through many things like a grown up although she is still at a young age in her life. Furthermore into the poem, Wilbur tells a story of a starling that was trapped in his daughter's room two years ago and how he watched it escape through a hard, long process "And how for helpless hour, through the crack of the door, we watched the sleek, wild, dark and iridescent creature batter against the brilliance". In the end, through many tries to escape the young bird was finally able to escape through the window. For half of the poem, Wilbur compares his daughter to the starling having to go through many hardship in order to get to the outside world so similarly his daughter has also had a great load of burden before she could become a grown up. At the end of the poem he wishes his daughter what he had wished for her before in the third stanza a "lucky passage" in which represents the transition into adulthood.
"Packing for the Future" by Lorna Crozier is also about the process of growing up in life. In the first three stanzas, the author writes about a pair of socks that accompany one's walking path. It's almost like the author is comparing the socks you put on your feet represents the place you came from and the people that help you take your first steps "you cannot go without the hope socks bring you, the way they hold you to the earth. At least one pair must be new, must be as blue as a wish hand-knit by your mother in her sleep." The following stanzas also talk about things one must bring on their journey in life that reminds them of where they came from even though they could be for no practical uses "Perhaps the key you've kept though it doesn't fit any lock you know, the photograph that keeps you sane." Crozier continues on giving advice to a person who is leaving their home using the things that they could bring with them not necessarily for any survival needs but instead reminding them that they must not forget who they are and should carry their heritage, memories and dreams wherever they might go.
Part 2:
Sylvia Plath was born in October 27, 1932 and died in February 11, 1963 when she was only 30 from a carbon monoxide gas suicide. According to wikipedia, she was only eight when her father died; however, in the poem "Daddy" it is mentioned that they buried her dad when she was ten which is inaccurate information. But it is true when she mentioned that she had tried to kill herself during the age of twenty. Sylvia Plath has always suffered from depression which lead to her death later in life. Her poem let out a tone of anger towards her father. She probably chose to write about her life that way because she has always been on the down side of emotions and the way she expresses herself due to the loss of her father. In the poem it is almost like she is very angry with her father for dying " They are dancing and stamping on you. They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through." Plath would probably not agree with Winterson since according to "Daddy" it seems like what Plath writes about her life is one hundred percent the truth.
