1. Daddy by Plath - A Paradoxical Relationship
Throughout the poem, Plath uses German inferences and simplistic language in order to escape the oppression of her father, but preserve the idealistic mirror of him. ... The jaw becomes a barbed wire of concentration camps and the repeated "ich" of the German language recalls the sound of the engines carrying the Jews to the camps. ... The language is now obscene to the speaker because of the relation to the Holocaust. ... The language of the poem develops more exclusively within the vocabulary of hatred. ... She relates his character to a "Fascist", returning the German ...
- Word Count: 1113
- Approx Pages: 4
- Grade Level: High School