Sylvia Plaths Confessional Poem Daddy
Sylvia Plath=s Confessional Poem, ADaddy@Sylvia Plath reveals herself in her confessional poem ADaddy@. She uses strong imagery and powerful speech to show her attitudes towards her late father, Otto Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, who also hurt her in the end. Her tone implies a strong hatred and disgust for the relationships with both men. The poem was written in 1963 which happened to be the same year that she committed suicide. Plath had a history of troubled times and attempted suicide. Plath describes her relationship and feelings of guilt, fear, and pain her father=s death caused her. Plath used imagery heavily in her poem to show her emotions. She casts her father into different parts throughout the poem. Plath=s images of her father are compared to God, a Nazi, the Devil, and a vampire. All of these images are powerful on their own but by being put together they are almighty and frightening. In the beginning the speaker=s childhood memories of her father are *God-like= to her. Her father wasn=t God, but just Aa bag of God@(8). He must have been very powerful and impressive to her. She continues to describe her father as a AGhastly statue with one gray toe@ (9), showing that her father was overwhe
Stylistic devices play an important role in showing the many complicated aspects of Plath=s attitude towards men. In this monologue of a woman to her *Daddy=, Plath addresses issues of abandonment and pain that her father and husband caused her. She illustrated how different they were. She does not actually announce the husband until line 64 I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look And a love of the rack and the screw. This was a symbolic realtionship of oppressor and oppressed. She married a man that reminded her of her father, only to be hurt again. She related with the Jews in concentration camps. Thought Plath is convinced that it does not make her father any less of a devil. That may be the reason for the confusion in most of the poem. There was never such powerful closure as Plath last line addressed to her father, ADaddy, daddy, you bastard, I=m through. Once she was able to kill the memory of her father, the separation of the two men occurred. (64-67)It was after Plath=s suicide attempt that she married Ted Hughes. @(80) Sad to note that she was really *through=, she killed herself the same year ending a life of troubles and writings of excellence.
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