To Forgive and to Forget, or not to Forgive and Forget,
While reading Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy," the speaker, possibly Plath as a child and later, an adult, tries to distance herself from her dead father to be able to move on with her life. The uses of The Holocaust imagery seem to help the speaker imaging her father as an evil man, which could possibly help her deal with the extreme grief of his absence.
In the second stanza, the speaker says, "Daddy, I have to kill you, You died before I had time"(1028), this could be the speaker stating that she was too young when her father died, and didn't really was not old enoug
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