Analysis of Sylvia Plath's poem "daddy"
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 23:57:30
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (728 words)
Category: / Literature / North American
Length: 3 pages (728 words)
To attempt to summarize "Daddy" would be an injustice to its many layers of meaning. However, in short, it is a poem in which the speaker tells of her father's early death in her life and the lingering effects it had on her, resulting in an unhealthy preoccupation with him and a desperate need to rid him from her life so she can finally move on. It is not immediately apparent whether the term "daddy" …
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…foundation her marriage was built upon, and of course the marriage's consequent downfall. Plath also uses such imagery as vampires and Holocaust Jews and Nazis, even though their meaning was anything but literal. "Daddy" tells Plath's story of how she was so attached to her dead father, she married a man that she hoped would be just like him, but instead turned out to be a metaphorical "vampire" who "drank her blood" for seven years.
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