Write a 40 minute essay over the poem "All My Pretty Ones" by Anne Sexton. Before setting your timer, read the poem again looking over your annotations. You will be writing on the speaker's changing perspective of her father. Look at each album the speaker goes through. The first, she discards. The second, she "throw[s] out. The next, she ________, and finally, she _________.
Her emotions go from bitterness (maybe) to forgiveness. How? Why?
After your careful review, set the timer.
Write a well-developed essay in which you analyze how Sexton conveys the speaker's changing perspective of her father through the use of allusion, imagery/metaphor, and tone.
FOR TEAM DISCUSSION ON WEDNESDAY:
Task #2
Read the short story "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." Come to class ready to conduct a detailed discussion with your team. Consider Vonnegut's use of allusion. What concerns does Vonnegut's short story address? What themes? What motifs? What symbols?
Find the Sylvia Plath poem entitled "Daddy"on the internet. Read and annotate the poem. Consider the tone of this poem in comparison to Sexton's poem. Do the speaker's feeling change throughout the poem? What is the tone? Annotate comparison of father to history, images that suggest the speaker lacks value.
Your textbook has this note about this poem: "Plath has said of 'Daddy': 'The poem is spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly part-Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze each other--she has to act out the awful little allegory before she is free of it.' How does this commentary by the poet influence your reading of the poem?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_complex
Again,come ready to discuss!
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