Analysis of Daddy by Sylvia Plath

Anna scab ENGL 210-0824T Essay 1 Schumacher tonic by Sylvia Plath The definition of get is a male p arent. For some people the word novice goes much deeper than that. A mother is some maven who protects you and loves you, gives you guidance and advice, and is the one person you give the gate invariably count on. But for some people a father is unsloped that, a male parent a person you barely k right off, or a person you have come to fear. In Sylvia Plaths song, Daddy, she tells a chilling description of a man whom she compares to Hitler, a man who is her daddy. In the poem Daddy, the vocaliser unfolds a disturbing description of a father.Plath uses elements that we control happened in her real support and also unconstipatedts of the most horrific potbelly murder in the worlds history, the Holocaust. Many different metaphors are used to withdraw the relationship the vocaliser had with her father a swastika, a national socialist, like God, and a vampire. The verbaliser describes herself as a victim, referring to herself as a Jew. The speaker unit is not necessarily a Jew nevertheless she wants the reader to leave the relationship she had with her father to be like the relationship between a Nazi (her father) and a Jew (herself).In the poem the speaker talks of revenge and cleanup spot her father and also killing her husband. The climactic part of the poem is the speaker finally telling her father that she is through with him. In the first stanza the speaker describes her father as a foul shoe that she has been living in her whole life and how she is not going to live that way anymore. In these lines For thirty eld, poor and white, / Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. (4-5) you can see the fear that the speaker lived in for thirty years. She was too panic-struck of her father to even sneeze.In stanzas two and three is where the speaker introduces the audience to the caprice that she has killed her father. Daddy I have had to kill you. / Yo u died before I had measure(6-7). Here it is unclear as to whether the speaker actually killed her father because he died before she had time to do something. The speaker could be saying that she killed her father exactly only in her mind. I used to pray to call bear pop out you / Ach, du (14-15). The speaker says recover you which means regain beings she tries to get her father back into her life, but when she says used to the impression is she no longer needs or wants her father in her life. Ach, du is German meaning Oh, you but it is unclear as to whether the speaker is angry or sad. (Shmoop, 2013). Stanzas four through six describe the Polack town where the speakers father came from, but lines (19-23) But the advert of the town is common / My Polack friend / Says there are a twelve or two. / So I could never tell where you / Put your foot, your root, the speaker explains that she will never know where her father came from. The speaker continues on into the German words and how it terrified her because it reminded her of her father.She says how she could barely speak around him and The tongue stuck in my jaw. / It stuck in a barb wire snare. (25-26) describes how painful it was to talk to her father or in German. I thought e genuinely German was you. / And the language obscene (29-30). Here the speaker sees every German as her father and how language disturbs her. The speaker has terrible memories of her father. (Shmoop, 2013). The speaker then begins to compare herself to a Jew and describes the relationship between her father as that of a Jew and a Nazi in lines (34-35), I began to talk like a Jew. I deliberate I may well be a Jew. The fear and little terror she experiences around her father is very disturbing because of the metaphor she uses. The speaker uses the following stanza to describe her fathers appearance. She has always feared him and his German characteristics his language, the German port force. His neat mustache and blue eye (43- 44). A mustache iconic of Hitlers and blue eye referring to the ideal human race of white-haired(prenominal) blondes that Hitler was difficult to create. (Shmoop, 2013). I was ten when they buried you. / At twenty when I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. (57-60). The speakers father died when she was ten and ten years later she tried to kill herself. Sylvia Plath also tried to kill herself when she was slightly twenty years old. The speaker, practiced like Plath, did not succeed. The speaker tried to kill herself in hopes to get closer to her father. She thinks that by dying their liquor or at least their bones will be together. (Shmoop, 2013). later on the speaker had recovered she decided what she need to do next was deal a model of her father. And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, (63-64). Now she doesnt mean a physical model, but a person. She decided to marry a man like her father. The speaker describes thi s man to qualities like that of Hitler (like her father) and his love for the rack and screw (66) which are two gruesome instruments used for torture. Next in line 71, If Ive killed one man, Ive killed two the speaker implies that not only has she killed her father but she has killed her husband now. The vampire who said he was you / And drank my blood for a year, / seven-spot years, if you want to know. (72-74).The speaker again uses the word vampire except now she is using it to describe her husband. Her husband is described to be imbibe the life out of her just a vampire sucks the blood from a body, just like her father did for thirty years. At first the speaker makes it sullen like she has been married for only a year, but then changes it to seven. This could be because their marriage has run together in a blur of lugubriousness and upon further thought she realizes it has actually been seven years. Sylvia Plath was married to Ted Hughes for about seven years, as well. (Sh moop, 2013).The ending of the poem the speaker uses to say that her father needed to be killed just like a vampire with a gamble to the heart. Theres a stake in your fat, black heart. (76). hence the speaker tells us that nobody liked her father either and they danced on his grave because they also saw him to be like that of a vampire, sucking the life out of people and the reason for so much unhappiness. The very last line of the poem, Daddy, daddy, you bastard, Im through. (80), the speaker uses to finally be done with her father. This is the peak of the poem and I picture the speaker to purge this line right at father and finally free herself. Shmoop, 2013). In Sylvia Plaths poem, Daddy, she tells a chilling description of a man whom she compares to Hitler, a man who is her daddy. This poem uses many different metaphors to compare different things vampires, black hearts, a black shoe, Nazis and Jews. All of these add to the image the speaker is trying to create of her father . The cruelty of this man is completely disturbing. The word daddy is usually used as term of endearment for a father, but in this poem the speaker uses it sarcastically to demean her father because he never sincerely was a father to her.The fear and horror inflicted on the speaker comes out in the poem in the angry tone she uses throughout the piece. Daddy? This man was no father at all. Sources Daddy Stanza 16 Summary. Shmoop grooming Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep. N. p. , n. d. Web. 7 Feb. 2013. http//www. shmoop. com/daddy-sylvia-plath/stanza-16-summary. html. Plath, Sylvia. Daddy Sylvia Plath. internal. org poets. N. p. , n. d. 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