"Daddy" is a poem written by American poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on October 12, 1962, and published in 1963. On February 11, 1963, Sylvia Plath killed herself with cooking gas at the age of 30. Plath’s "Daddy" seems like a personal confession from Plath to her father. Her work is often singled out for intense coupling of sadistic, violent imagery with playful alliteration and rhyme. Plath uses innumerable images to describe how she viewed her father. In the first stanza, she writes, “black shoe, In which I have lived like a foot, For thirty years" (APA citation goes here after line from poem). Plath is comparing her life to a foot (which the foot is herself) being imprisoned inside a shoe (her father and husband). In the second stanza, Plath depicts her father as being "a bag full of God." She also uses the phase marble heavy” to set up an image of her father as a statue and that she looks to him as a possible role model. Further on in the poem, Plath uses various Nazi-related metaphors to describe her father. She even goes so far as to draw bodily counterparts between her father and for a lack of better words that comes to mine Hitler; she writes in the 9th stanza, "your neat mustache, And your Aryan eye, bright blue, Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You" and "Every woman adores a Fascist" in the tenth stanza. …show more content…
Now that she has a model of her father, she is through with the very memories of her father and their effects on her life. Plath details how she is through with him, by stating “the black telephones off at the root, The voice just can’t worm through.” Plath signifies that she’s “through” with him by saying the telephone is “off at the root.” The phone having a root, gives the idea that the voices can’t “worm” through. It can be imagines as a black telephone, growing like a plant, from Plath’s father’s grave. And, the voices coming through would be like worms in the