The Violence of The Queen of Spades Essay -- The Queen of Spades

The power of Plaths Daddy Daddy is probably Plaths most far-famed poem. The critic George Steiner has said that, It is a poem by which future generations willing seek to know us. He has also called it, the Guernica of modern poetry. The violence of its resourcefulness and tone, the references to concentration camps, torture and fascism certainly evoke Picassos most celebrated painting. Plath claimed that in this poem she was adopting the persona of a girl with an Electra complex whose forefather had been a fascist, but while the poem is not completely autobiographical, it contains some(prenominal) obvious references to her own life. For example, here she refers to the picture of her father You stand at the blackboard, daddy,In the picture I have of you This is a direct work out of the actual photograph the Plaths possessed of Otto in front of his blackboard at the University. Similarly, the man in black with a Meinkampf look and the vampire who drank my ocellus for sevensom e years is a reference to her perception of Hughes to whom she had been married for seven years when t...