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Comment 15 of 65, added on December 3rd, 2004 at 12:35 PM.
this poem is good but it is crazy!!!!
Stacy from United States
Comment 14 of 65, added on November 18th, 2004 at 6:12 AM.
Daddy is neither soley concerned with Otto (Sylvia's father) nor Ted but
rather a combination of both. This is particularly evident in the twelfth
and fifteenth stanzas where she slips freely between discussing the two-
thus showing her perception of both of the predominant male influences in
her life as being one and the same. An example of this point is when the
speaker declares,
"I made a model of you,
A man in black with a Meinkampf look"
Here she implies that she deliberately sought a husband to reflect the
memory of her father and replace his presence in her life. As such although
much of the poem may superfluously seem concerned with simple slander of
her father's persona it is much deeper than this, as the psychoanalytic
imago of her Daddy shows, and it is an amalgamation of both the
psychological archetype of the speaker's memories of him and her own
psychic oppression.
Laila from United Kingdom
Comment 13 of 65, added on November 16th, 2004 at 8:46 PM.
i had to do a project on Sylvia Plath and i wasnt very excited at first but
after i read 'daddy' it truely inspired me. i really enjoyed it and
actually understood it. i do believe 'daddy' is about her father and how
she had to deal with a his death. she related the vampire to him as a dead
soul in a human form. her father was an immigrant from Germany so she
called him a Nazi because of his rough and unfair treatment. she called
herself the Jew, being the victim. i think this may be the first poem i can
really ralate to and understand. i thought this truly was a great poem.
Gwen from United States
Comment 12 of 65, added on November 14th, 2004 at 11:01 AM.
i don't think that i have eever read any of Sylvia Plath's poems.
Dannielle Austin from United States
Comment 11 of 65, added on November 11th, 2004 at 9:35 AM.
tran-D is obviously very well educated and we should all listen to his view
of the poem.....
Brian from United States
Comment 10 of 65, added on November 5th, 2004 at 2:09 PM.
This poem about her emotional struggles, and i personaly think is about her
father and husband. She puts herself in a nazi's childs view and release
her anger of men and society into this poem. Though it is very angery i
think it is very powerful and well written
Victoria M
Comment 9 of 65, added on November 2nd, 2004 at 9:36 AM.
Well, I have read the poem, and after careful thought I can conclude that
it was indeed written by Sylvia Plath, and not by a purple alien dressed in
women's clothing and putting on a fake American accent, as rumour has it. I
believe whoever started this ridiculous rumour is an utter nincompoop, they
know who they are, and I should think they are feeling mighty sheepish
right about now.
Cheddarbob from United Kingdom
Comment 8 of 65, added on October 22nd, 2004 at 10:19 PM.
In a time of need, this poem can be great to read. A very angry poem I
think, however, anger is one of the ways people deal with stress and
internal struggle. This poem is about Plath's personal life, it has nothing
to do with her father. She compares "Daddy" as an image of evil, of hate.
She's using this Daddy character also as a nazi who persecuted Jews. This
connection to the holocaust is very powerful. Reading this poem is great
when your depressed or have depression problems. The anger expressed in
this poem is very healing and soothing.
Mike from United States
Comment 7 of 65, added on October 17th, 2004 at 6:08 AM.
Sylvia Plath's outstanding poem 'Daddy' is evidently based on memories of
her father Otto Plath, who died when she was eight years of age.It
emphasises the many similarities he shared with her husband, Ted
Hughes.Many terms described throughout WW2 suggest hatred for her father as
if he was a Nazi.This powerful poem is one to be remembered because of its
uniqueness and talented writer Sylvia Plath, who sadly felt the need to end
her life at the age of thirty.
Alice from Australia
Comment 6 of 65, added on October 12th, 2004 at 11:57 AM.
this poem isnt about her dad. its really about her husband. she didnt like
him, didnt love him, she loved his poems, she fell in love with his poems,
so married him. she knew that she couldnt write a poem about him directly,
so she called it "daddy" to talk about the father of her children.
ashley from United States
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this poem is good but it is crazy!!!!
Stacy from United States