The language in the poem Daddy, by Sylvia Plath, reveals the author's struggle to escape the memory of her father, who died when she was only ten years old. The author's descriptions of her father compared him to God, a Nazi, the Devil, and a vampire. All of these images are overwhelming on their own, but when put together they are colossal and upsetting. Throughout this poem, Sylvia Plath creates a mounting tone of disgust and animosity aimed at her dominating father. This tone is demonstrated through Plath's use of metaphors and stylistic devices such as dialect and punctuation to describe her father.
             In order to get her point across, the author casts her father in different roles throughout the poem. In the beginning, the speaker's childhood memories of her father are God-like. Her father wasn't God, but just "a bag full of God" (504). While growing up, she must have seen her father as a very impressive and powerful man. The author goes on to depict her father as a "Ghastly statue with one gray toe" (504), showing that her father was an overwhelming force. The author most likely viewed her father as an unattainable man as well, since he died while she was still a young child.
             The narrator's feelings of abandonment and domination by her father eventually lead her to view him as a supreme evil. This sentiment is made abundantly clear through examples that cannot be ignored. Daddy is crammed with images of Nazi Germany and Hitler (lines 16-20, 29, 40-48, and 65). "German tongue" (504), "Barb wire snare" (505), "Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen" (505), "Luftwaffe" (505), and "Neat mustache/ And your Aryan eye, bright blue" (505) all paint a vivid picture of a Nazi in the reader's mind. Plath's selective word choice instills a picture of emotional agony in the reader's mind.
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