... and white. (1-4) In this poem it seems Plath is frantically jabbing at who her father might have been, at one point she even refers to him as a God: 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 ... as her father had some of the physical characteristics that Hitler had. For example the neatly trimmed mustache is the same style, the bright blue eye is stereotypical when someone thinks of Hitler's idealistic Pure-Aryan Germany, the population being, all blonde haired and blue eyed people, "And your n...

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... and the Devil. Another allusion comes from the Nazi references she makes at the beginning of the piece. She sates, "A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day ... possibly had some type of burn herself. Maybe she was burned badly as a child or something. Third, she could be hinting towards her next suicide attempt. As stated earlier she killed herself by sticking her head ...

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... and the Devil. Another allusion comes from the Nazi references she makes at the beginning of the piece. She sates, "A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot A paperweight, My featureless, fine Jew linen. Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?------- The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day ... possibly had some type of burn herself. Maybe she was burned badly as a child or something. Third, she could be hinting towards her next suicide attempt. As stated earlier she killed herself by sticking her head ...

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... the use of the mirror. The poem describes a woman who seeks and yet denies the truth about herself and it reveals a woman growing older as she watches the process unfolding before her. This beautifully stated imagery results in a very heart felt poem. The first sentence of the poem uses metaphoric words to ... not cruel, only truthful"" (4) "It considered itself a four-cornered eye of a god" (5), therefore sees everything for what it is. The mirror is very important to the poet as she seeks the truth. Seeing her true self, she is aware of both her exterior and interior life. She is betw...

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... poem takes off, her emotional state rockets her into the air. By her saying "Daddy, I have had to kill you./Marble heavy, a bag full of God,"" she implies that she killed her father, but he is portrayed in her life as her god. The speaker experiences turbulence throughout the poem. Her love-hate relationship with her ... father is evident in this entire poem. It is best portrayed when she says "Bit my pretty read heart in two./I made a model of you."" The rhythm of "Daddy- is like a never ending trip around the world. When ... Plath states "At twenty I tried to die/But they pulled me o...

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... the father, the Jew is now before the Nazi. She finally clarifies that her father is the Nazi by using imagery. "And your neat mustache/And your Aryan eye, bright blue" (line 43-44). The neat mustache is an allusion to Hitler's mustache and the bright blue Aryan eyes ... the poem develops more exclusively within the vocabulary of hatred. It signals a change in the speaker's method of dealing with the image of her father. She moves away from her confrontation with her childhood projections. The following line: "Not God but a swastika/ So black no sky could squeak through" ... of a bru...

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