1. Sylvia Plath
(8-13).
I have learned that living where she did in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath had a great understanding and a passion for the ocean. In these lines, I believe that Sylvia is comparing her father to what she is most familiar with, maybe comparing him to the mythology of Neptune, the Roman God of the sea. The portrayal of Otto Plath by family and friends may have influenced Sylvia to believe that "Daddy" is the perfect man and husband. She then starts a hopeless search for the proper man who resembles her father, or at least with what she knows of him. One point in the poem she talks of a Polish town and a friend who tells her there are many like her father there but she couldn't speak to her father: .
In the German tongue, in the Polish town /.
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. (16-24).
Sylvia Plath even acknowledges that she married a man because he resembled her father, "I made a model of you, a man in black with a Meinkamphf look". Referring to her father she met a man who wore black and seemed to have that hard working look or a look of struggle and frustration. Plath continues to write "And a love of the rack and the screw. And I said I do, I do." Referring she married the man because he resembled German characteristics of her father.
Sylvia Plath, refers to her father as a Panzer-man and Nazi. Plath refers to herself as a Jew just the stanza before. I believe the Second World War had a great impact on these statements, 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 neat mustache / And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
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