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An Explication of Sylvia Plath8217s 8220Daddy8221

begin to see Plath calling up memories of her father in photographs, and she now refers to him as a devil. In stanza 12, she tells us that he has bit her pretty red heart in two. Next, she states that he died when she was ten, and when she was twenty years old, she attempted suicide - I tried to die, to get back back back to you. In stanza 13 is where she starts talking about her husband. She says that instead of dying, her friends stuck her together with glue, and since she could not die to get back to her father, she would marry someone who was similar.I made a model of you,A man in black with a Meinkampf lookFor a love of the rack and the screw.And I said I do, I do.These lines are frightening, but unfortunately real. Plath tells us that she has married someone exactly like her father, a man who has a my struggle look, a German look. The third line above seems to mean that her husband, who was poet Ted Hughes, cheated on her, in turn abandoning her. But she still said I do and agreed to be with him.The last two stanzas are the darkest, and ultimately appear to put some type of closure on Plaths life. She obviously believes that she killed her father when she was ten years old, stating that if Ive killed one man, Ive killed two. When parents die, and a child is very young, the child will often believe it to be his or her fault, because children cannot grasp the concept of death or the fact that a parent has left them. Therefore, it is apparent that Plath thinks she killed her father at ten, and is now killing her husband, because he has been cheating on her. She refers to her husband as a vampire, who has drank my blood for a year, seven years, if you want to know. Plath considers her husband to be the vampire version of her father, coming back to life to torture her and drink her life away.But in the last stanza, it seems obvious that Plath has come to a realization. She tells her father to lie back now because theres a ...

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