ormed surgery, but it was too late. Otto's toe was amputated in hopes of saving him. Sylvia's father passed away in November, 1940." Source: Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness. New York: The Seabury Press, 1976. The next passage, "And a head in the freakish Atlantic where it pours bean green over blue, in the waters off beautiful Nauset." describes how Sylvia felt when she heard of her fathers' infection in his foot. She thinks of it in a kind of hideous way that makes her sick. "I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du," shows me that she still cared about her father and prayed for him while he was ill. It is amazing that even though she knew her father didn't care for her, Sylvia still cared enough for him to worry. But he still didn't care that she worried. The passage "In the German tongue, in the Polish town scraped flat by the roller of wars, wars, wars,"shows the plot of the poem, where everything took place. This also hints on the period in history when this happened, however, it doesn't tell us exactly. In the following stanza it explains further. "But the name of the town is common. My Polack f
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