Dear Daddy

Dear Daddy

Sylvia Plath’s poem Daddy can be seen by today’s readers as a piece not only about the

Resentment of a father but about the resentment of the way that she views society’s elders. Also this

Piece can be seen as an owed to the victims that were part of one of the most horrible actions in human

history, The Holocaust.

Plath describes her father in detail within the piece however the detail that we see is not exactly one that would please us to the eye. She writes, “Ghastly Statue with one gray toe,” this line is very insightful for the reader because it helps to describe the stature of her father. “Ghastly Statue,” sticks out here as one phrase that would tell the reader that he was a large man. Perhaps of great stature. However it could mean that he presented himself as a man of great stature even though he might have been a shorter man. What is meant by this is that he demanded a great deal of respect ant was given it.

With the many refrences to World War II, “war,war,war,” the reader might piece together that the father in the poem had a part in the war. Coupled with the refrences to Judaism and certain dismemberment the reader could conclude that the father had be a victim of war crimes.

Overall the piece is fairly understandable because the generations that were learning about the WWII from their parents might have had resentment for turning the world into the blood thirsty societies that it is today.