Daddy Dearest
The language in the poem Daddy, by Sylvia Plath, reveals the author’s struggle to escape the memory of her father, who died when she was only ten years old. The author’s descriptions of her father compared him to God, a Nazi, the Devil, and a vampire. All of these images are overwhelming on their own, but when put together they are colossal and upsetting. Throughout this poem, Sylvia Plath creates a mounting tone of disgust and animosity aimed at her dominating father. This tone is demonstrated through Plath’s use of metaphors and stylistic devices such as dialect and punctuation to describe her father. In order to get her point across, the author casts her father in different roles throughout the poem. In the beginning, the speaker’s childhood memories of her father are God-like. Her father wasn’t God, but just “a bag full of God” (504). While growing up, she must have seen her father as a very impressive and powerful man. The author goes on to depict her father as a “Ghastly statue with one gray toe” (504), showing that her father was an overwhelming force. The author most likely viewed her father as an unattainable man as well, since he died while she was still a young child. The narrator’s feelings of abandonment an
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Approximate Word count = 826
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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