In Daddy, Sylvia Path takes an unusual approach to express the anger in the poem. The poem is based around a woman who describes her anger for her father and her husband, she hates them for something she perceives they are, but aren’t in actuality. She describes her father as the devil “A cleft in your chin instead of your foot, But no less a devil for that” (54-55). Now obviously her father is not the devil, but that line describes her anger of her father, devil

A poem doesn’t always need to show over exaggeration of emotion to get its point across. Holes Commence Falling is a great example of this, though the anger presented in the poem is understated, the impact of the poem is no less powerful. Huddle in the poem is describing drilling done by a company, that really takes advantage of his town. “We are proud of all that digging, even though nobody from town got hired” (8-11). The bitterness in that line is easily detected, even though it is not presented to the reader as straightforward as Daddy. Instead of telling you that he is angry in the poem with the company digging the town and not hiring the workers, he makes you figure that out. But that is not the only misfortune the town suffers from the digging in the town, “they got a truck to haul water and sell it to the people whose wells had dried up, but everybody agreed the situation wasn’t that serious” (24-30). The author could have easily come out and criticized the company for what they are doing to his town, there wasn’t even any hostility shown by the author nor did he place blame on the company.

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