In lines 2-3 "Any more black shoe, In which I have lived like a foot." Plath uses the image of feet and black shoes to begin to reveal the picture of her relationship with her father. The feet here represent that of herself, she in this case is the foot while her father is the shoe, a shoe which she is surrounded by and cant escape. The color black is used here to also represent another portion of the picture of the relationship she has with her father revealing that black is symbolic of death and that since the shoe that is binding her is black, in essence is killing her.

In lines 8-10 "Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe, Bug as a Frisco seal." Plath is portraying her father as a statue one made up of marble. Marble is cold and hard and when in the form of a statue, which is a replica of the person, which is life-le

In lines 56-57 "A stake in your fat black heart" and "drank my blood for a year, the vampire that said he was you" and the line "I've killed one man, I've killed two." While writing these images of her father she sees him as someone that will only cause harm to her and scare her. When she says she has killed two men it is because of the fact that she married a man that is as controlling and possessive as her father. She had to end the relationship to free her by using the term kill. Sucking the life out of her he was, she not living for herself, but out of fear of him.

Plath uses many different elements through out her poem "Daddy" to give the reader a strong, vivid picture of what her life was like when it came to her relationships with men. They were all unsuccessful and through out her struggle her entire life she has finally found the courage to let all that go and go on with her life without those cutting feelings inside her.

ss, again, an image of death. The statue is something that you can talk to but your words will never penetrate, she feels like she is talking to her father that way and that she will never get any kind of reaction out of him. There is a commu

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Approximate Word count = 795
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)