#31

For this week one of my critical analysis will be on Sylvia Path's Daddy. I enjoyed reading this poem because I was actually familiar with the poem because I remember reading it from my America Literature Class. I did not know it was considerate a confessional poem though. This was a rather long poem but I never lost interest in it when I was reading.The poem refers to her relationship with her daddy and how his death changed her life. This is considerate a confessional poem because as the audience we assume that it is about the author herself, also in reality Sylvia Path commits suicide.The themes in this poem are oppression and freedom. The meaning of oppression is evident when Plath uses the metaphors Nazi' and Jew to describe her father and herself. This image leads us to believe that she is dependent on her father for survival as well as a victim because of her father's strict ways. Her mental suffering is further reinforced by the allusions to the Nazi concentration camps Dachau, Auschwitz and Belsen' as it reinforces the fact that she is a victim and that she is unable to escape from the psychological hold that her father has on her.