What relationship is not a "Love-Hate" relationship? As we grow older and mature, we harden like a rock and have to suffer the realization that perfection is a mirage on the horizon. Sylvia Plath makes this clear in the undercurrents of her poem, Daddy. Plath reflects on her suffering, not only of her loss of father, but also on her childhood, rough marriage, and attempted suicide.
            
             In the first stanza, Plath makes a reference to a black shoe (line 2). I believe this reference refers to her home ("black") and her home-life ("shoe"). In this stanza, Plath gives us the feeling that her home life was a bad, dark and dreary one. We also see in this first stanza the fear she has towards her father. For years she lived with this fear barely able to do anything. She says, "For thirty years, poor and white,/Barely daring to breathe or Achoo" (lines 4-5).
            
             The second stanza begins with the narrator wanting to kill her father, but her father dying before she could get a chance (lines 6-7). Plath also saw her father as a god; fearful and big. She says, "Marble heavy, a bag full of God/Ghastly statue with one gray toe/Big as a Frisco" (lines 8-10). The image the reader gets here is a tall statue made of marble of a god who was feared by the people. Flowing into the third stanza, Plath continues with her description of the statue of which she imagined her father to be like. Even though she feared her father and wanted him to die, she loved him. After he has passed, she wanted him back. "I used to pray to recover you" (line 14). Plath is unable to "put to rest" the memory of her father.
             In stanza five, Plath points out that she never spoke to her father and she does not know his background well. She says:
            
             So I never could tell you where you
             Put your foot, your root
             I never could talk t...