He was Aryan, with blue eyes. "In psychoanalysis, an Electra complex is the female version of Freud's Oedipus complex. The "you" to whom the poem is addressed is the absent father.Lines 6-10: Daddy, I have had to kill you. They are dancing and stamping on you. The last line of this stanza is the German phrase for “oh, you.”Here, the speaker finishes what she began to explain in the previous stanza by explaining that she learned from a friend that the name of the Polish town her father came from, was a very common name. With the final line, the speaker tells her father that she is through with him.

So daddy, I’m finally through.

Then, the speaker considers her ancestry, and the gypsies that were part of her heritage. More information about the contextual history of Plath makes use of a number of poetic techniques in Metaphors and similes appear throughout the text in order to convey the speaker’s emotional opinions about her father. The speaker has already suggested that women love a brutal man, and perhaps she is now confessing that she was once such a woman. Lines 56-60: Bit my pretty red heart in two. It’s clear she will not ever be able to know exactly where his roots are from. In this instance, she felt afraid of him and feared everything about him. The speaker is consciously, deliberately choosing sides.Lines 41-45: I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. So I never could tell where you Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. It isn’t until years after her father’s death that she becomes aware of the true brutal nature of her relationship. When speaking about her own work, Plath describes herself (in regards to Literary historians have determined that neither of these statements about her parents was accurate but were introduced into the narrative in order to enhance its poignancy and stretch the limits of allegory. Now she has hung up, and the call is forever ended.It is not clear why she first says that he drank her blood for “a year”. Then she describes that the cleft that is in his chin, should really be in his foot. In this first stanza of Daddy, the speaker reveals that the subject of whom she speaks is no longer there. She says she's done with him forever. The devil is often characterized as an animal with cleft feet, and the speaker believes he wears his cleft in his chin rather than in his feet. In Plath's own words:"Daddy" was written on October 12th 1962, a month after Plath had separated from her husband and moved—with their two small children—from their home in Devon to a flat in London. Lines 71-75: If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—— The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. This means that having re-created her father by marrying a harsh German man, she no longer needed to mourn her father’s death. Does it takes things one step too far? Why do women love Fascists? "Daddy" is a poem Plath had to write. This reveals that even though her father may have been a beautiful specimen of a human being, she knew personally that there was something awful about him. The third line of this stanza begins a sarcastic description of women and men like her father. While he has been dead for years, it is clear that her memory of him has caused her great grief and struggle. Is it bitter sarcasm or truth? Here, the speaker finally finds the courage to address her father, now that he is dead. And then I knew what to do. He was found guilty by trial in Jerusalem, Israel, and sentenced to hang.This poem is full of surreal imagery and allusion interspersed with scenes from the poet's childhood and a kind of dark cinematic language that borrows from nursery rhyme and song lyric. Freud’s theory on the Oedipus complex seems to come into play here. "Daddy" is an attempt to combine the personal with the mythical. This is why she describes her father as a giant black swastika that covered the entire sky. So she changes her tactic and makes an effigy of him.Lines 66-70: And a love of the rack and the screw. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You——"Luftwaffe" is the German air force; "gobbledygoo" is another childlike word that conveys her disdain for the German. You have to have courage to express such pain in this manner and you could say that courage is a sign of great maturity.When read through as a whole, "Daddy" stops and starts, splutters and shunts, travels over rough ground, and screeches round corners.


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