ds up, "Daddy" begins with a child like tone, nursery rhyme in nature even, using baby talk such as the word "Achoo" (Daddy, 5) and later "gobbledygoo" (Daddy, 42). Indeed, it seems as though Plath is a child before her father but quickly turns into a Jew before a Nazi. The child's intimidation is apparent, for example, in "I never could talk to you/The tongue stuck in my Jaw" (Daddy, 24-5); but the sense of the childhood terror melds into a suggestion of the Jewish persecution and terror with the next line: "It stuck in a barb wire snare." (Daddy, 26). From there Plath uses the ne
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