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Audio Recording of "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

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She suffered from depression because of her father's death. He died due to complications from a foot amputation procedure in 1940. The deep depression she felt from her father's passing was too much for her to bear. She went on to write "Daddy" it concerned her troubled relationship with her authoritarian father and her feelings of betrayal when he died.

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Sylvia creates a figurative image of her father, using many different metaphors to describe her relationship with him. He's like a black shoe that she's had to live in; like a statue that stretches across the United States; like a Nazi; like a Swastika; and, finally, like a vampire.

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Plath feels as if she is living in a black shoe because of the problems with her father. "Any more, black shoe" (Plath 2).

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Sylvia uses literary devices such as imagery and allusion in this particular poem. She alludes to her father being many different things. One of these is a statue. "Ghastly statue with one grey toe" (Plath 9).

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Sylvia thinks with all her father's transgressions she is like a victim of the nazi party. "I think I may well be a Jew" (Plath 35). She described him as an evil nazi and during the war the nazis gathered all the Jews for labor and death camps.

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Plath gives us an image of her father by describing him as a nazi. "Not God, but a swastika" (Plath 46).The symbol of the nazi party is a swastika and is widely known as unforgiving and hateful, much like her father was in her eyes.

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The most bizarre description she gives of her father is that of a vampire. "The vampire who said he was you" (Plath 72). She says he sucks the blood out of her. This is a metaphor for him sucking the life out of her for years.