Analysis Of Back To Black By Sylvia Plath - 1481 Words

Amy Winehouse and Sylvia Plath both explore how little control they have over their selves. Winehouse in Back to Black expresses her lack of control by using the metaphor of rolling up a pipe like a ‘tiny penny’. This is an oxymoron that explains her inner turmoil as her relationship has broken. This is exemplified by Winehouse’s use of pronouns. In the first stanza of Back to Black, Winehouse uses third person pronouns to distance herself from the events. However, in later stanzas Winehouse changes the pronouns to ‘you’ as the events of the song become personal. Her partner leaving her has left her feeling like she has ‘died a hundred times’, driving her to lose control over herself and relapse into addiction. The second person pronouns†¦show more content†¦Contrastingly, Plath uses the metaphor of her partner being a vampire to further convey the obsession she has with her fathers’ control. Plath’s partner Ã¢â‚¬Ë œsaid he was you’, and she uses the metaphor of vampire in order to convey how her partner, and by extension her father, drained her of life driving her to suicide. Plath shows the inner conflict she faces about the absence of her father through the pronouns used. As Daddy progresses, the pronoun ‘you’ is more frequently used which has the effect of accusing her father of leaving her. As Plath’s desire to be controlled is shown throughout her poems, the only thing that she can maintain is the five line structure of her stanzas. This rigid following of the traditional poetic conventions appeals to her conservative audience. Both Plath and Winehouse convey in their poems how their control over their selves is limited. Judith Wright, Plath and Winehouse explore their different beliefs about the boundaries of gender expectations. Wright uses religious imagery in Eve to her Daughters to convey that a woman should recognise and remove her submissive nature. 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