To Forgive and to Forget, or not to Forgive and Forget,
             While reading Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy," the speaker, possibly Plath as a child and later, an adult, tries to distance herself from her dead father to be able to move on with her life. The uses of The Holocaust imagery seem to help the speaker imaging her father as an evil man, which could possibly help her deal with the extreme grief of his absence.
             In the second stanza, the speaker says, "Daddy, I have to kill you, You died before I had time"(1028), this could be the speaker stating that she was too young when her father died, and didn't really was not old enough to understand. On another level, the speaker is also saying that she had to kill him, which could mean that now, because she is older, she had to find a way to accept the fact that her father was dead, and to do that, in her mind, she had to kill him.
             One may see that the speaker had some sort of mental breakdown when, "At twenty I tried to die...back to you"(1029). The speaker clearly tried to commit suicide to be able to be with her father and she was put into a hospital. The speaker needed to be able to get to her father, "...even the bones would do..."(1029) if she could somehow just be with him and feel the comfort in him. Apparently, her memories alone would not suffice.
             Perhaps, that is when she began to imaging her father as a Hitler-like person, "A man in black with a Meinkampf look"(1029). This statement seems to be the easiest way to confront her anger; and by imagining her father to be an evil person, she is able to distance herself even more and finally begin to heal.
             After reading the poem, one could possibly see this as a letter, written to the speaker's father when she is an adult. In the last stanza the speaker says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through"(1030) This could symbolize the fact t
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