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... Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a perfect example of this unfortunate trend. ... The first two stanzas, lines 1-10, tell the readers that Plath, for thirty years, has been afraid of her father, so scared that she dares not to “breathe or Achoo.” She has been living in fear, although she announces that he’s already dead. ... She says that she “has had to kill” him, but he’s already dead, indicating her initial promise to forget him. ... ” What Plath’s intent here is to allow us to understand that her father was a German, and she relates his behavior as a person to a Nazi. ... “Every woman adores a Fascist” is Plath’s way of describing her feelings toward her father, since he was German. ... ” In stanza 11, we begin to see Plath calling up memories of her father in photographs, and she now refers to him as a devil. ... Plath tells us that she has married someone exactly like her father, a man who has a “my struggle” look, a German look. ... The last two stanzas are the darkest, and ultimately appear to put some type of closure on Plath’s life.
Approximate Word count = 939
Approximate Pages = 3.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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