The speaker's feelings of loneliness is discussed in Al Strangeways essay "The Boot in the Face: The Problem of the Holocaust in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath."" The escape to freedom is one of the themes in the poem "the female figure's adoration of the Fascist is an extreme result of a stereotypically feminine escape from the feelings of aloneness associated with freedom, through masochistic strivings- (Strangeways). .
The style of "Daddy- has consistent end rhyme and rhythmic regularity from beginning to end. The rhythm of Plath's poem "is anapestic trimeter with many irregularities; its end rhyme, "oo,"" falls into no particular pattern but concludes a minimum of one line in every five-line stanza and a maximum of five lines- (Hall 101). The compulsive uses of the "oo- sound are child like. It emphasizes the pain she was put through as a child when her father left her. It is clear that "this is Plath's starkest confrontation with the daddy problem is evident throughout her work; because the sense that drives this poem is perhaps more painful to her than any other - (Hall 101). The speaker expresses her agony by producing images for the reader. Sylvia Plath uses powerful images such as the Holocaust in her poems to emphasize the extreme pain she was in. The Holocaust is an event that concerns everyone; her personal pain is transformed into public images, which have a greater impact on us. She creates images of victimization such as "Nazis, swastikas, barbed wire, fascists, brutes, devils, and vampires - are so frantic, imposing, and vituperative that the poem seems more out of control than it actually is- (Platizky). .
In the beginning the speaker's childhood memories of her father are God-like to her. .
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Her father wasn't exactly described as God but as a "bag full of God- (line 8).