Daddy Analysis - Academic Mode

Daddy
by Sylvia Plath

You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time——
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal

And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue
In the waters off beautiful Nauset.
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars.
But the name of the town is common.
My Polack friend

Says there are a dozen or two.
So I never could tell where you
Put your foot, your root,
I never could talk to you.
The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
I could hardly speak.
I thought every German was you.
And the language obscene

An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
I began to talk like a Jew.
I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
Are not very pure or true.
With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You——

Not God but a swastika
So black no sky could squeak through.
Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
In the picture I have of you,
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
But no less a devil for that, no not
Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.
I was ten when they buried you.
At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,
And they stuck me together with glue.
And then I knew what to do.
I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.
And I said I do, I do.
So daddy, I’m finally through.
The black telephone’s off at the root,
The voices just can’t worm through.

If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two——
The vampire who said he was you
And drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.

There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you b***, I’m through.

Daddy
Summary "Daddy" Popularity: Sylvia Plath, a famous American novelist and poet, wrote "Daddy," a famous literary work. This poem is about her father. It was first published in 1965. The poem presents the speaker's grief over the loss of her father. It also shows violence against women and the impacts of male dominance. The poem also features a generation gap that is the root cause of their disturbed relationship.
"Dad." As a representative of loss: This poem is written from the perspective of a daughter who has lost her father. The announcer very cleverly presents the graphic image of her father and tells how her father used to treat her when he was alive. Ironically, she doesn't yearn to see him again and she doesn't. she mourns the loss of her. Instead, he talks about the freedom and relief he feels after his death. Her father was a harsh and obscene German who could not give her the comfort, love and support that she needed and paralyzed her life, even though he was cruel, brutal and also, after his death, she married a man who was He looked like his father, which added more pain to his memories. Throughout the poem, she compares herself to the Jews and her father to the Nazis to explain the nature of her father. Themes in "Dad": Love, hate and loss are the main themes of the poem. The tormented speaker describes his life with his father before his death. He never gave her love or support and forced her to live a life of suffering. misery and pain. Her experience and torture robbed him of her identity. Despite her cold demeanor, she loved him very much. Unfortunately, her husband, who resembles her father, must have been compared to a vampire who molested her, and their marriage lasted seven years. At the end of the poem, she gives up and stops chasing after her father's shadow.
Analysis of literary devices in "Daddy"
Literary devices are tools the authors use to compare and explain the deeper meaning of the poem. Sylvia Plath has also used parables, metaphors, images and sound devices to reveal hidden messages about her relationship with her father.Some of the literary aids used in this poem are listed below:

Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds on the same line, e.g. B. the sound of / a / in “They dance and stamp on you” and the sound of / e / in “I was ten when they buried you” .
Metaphor: It is a phrase in which an implicit comparison between the various objects is made. The poet has compared her father, husband and most men in general to '. Black shoe '; "Ghastly Statue"; "Panzermann" and "Vampire".
Personification: Personification is intended to impart human qualities to inanimate objects. The poet describes her father as a train that takes her to a concentration camp. For example,
"A locomotive, a
locomotive pushes me like a Jew."

Onomatopoeia: Refers to the word that imitates the natural sounds of things. For example, 'achoo' and 'ich'.
Enjambment: Enjambment refers to the continuation of a sentence without the pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. For example,
"There's a bet on your fat black heart
and the villagers never liked you."

Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line as the / m / sound in "I made a model of you" and the / h / sound in "Dad, I had to kill you."
Images: images are used to make readers perceive things related to their five senses. For example, "More, black shoe, In which I have lived like a foot"; "And your Aryan eye, bright blue" and "But they took me out of the bag."
Consonance: The consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line, such as the / k / sound in “I started talking like a Jew” and the / r / sound in “They are not very pure or true.”
Simil: It is a rhetorical figure that is used to compare and clarify the meanings to the readers. There are two similes used in this poem. For example, "Big as a Frisco stamp". The father's toe is compared to a huge San Francisco stamp. In the sixth stanza, "I began to speak like a Jew" the poet compares herself to the Jews.

Analysis of poetic devices in "Daddy"
The poetic and literary devices are the same, but some are used only in poetry. Here is the analysis of some of the poetic devices used in this poem.

Estancia: A stanza is a poetic form of some. There are 80 verses in this poem with sixteen stanzas.
Quintin: A Quintin is a five-line stanza. Here, each stanza consists of five lines.
Rhyme Scheme: There is no specific rhyme scheme used in this poem. The rhyme is used to make the stanza melodious. Examples of final rhymes are most lines that end with the 'oo' sound. For example, “blue / you” and “true / Jew.
Quotes used
The following lines can be used to express the feelings of fear. These can also be used by children to express the fear they feel when talking to their father.

“I was always afraid of you,
With your air force, your Gobbledygoo.
And your neat mustache
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
Tank - Man, tank man, O you.