Daddy By Sylvia Plath

By Daryl:
The text is very important, because as we can see the poem talks about the people who were killed, tortured and treated unfairly by the Nazi. One of the persons that took advantage of the Jewish, was the father of the woman that is narrating the poem. She wrote this poem to remember those that were forgotten and to those that never lived freely, but she also writes it as an spit to the face her father for all that he did wrong, things that were just simply unforgettable.
As we can see, she wants to make herself fell like if she was the one suffering and tortured, like the Jewish. She wanted her father to realize that she was not the only person he should care of, but care for everyone’s right to live and be free.
A big symbol found in the story is:
Daddy: which represents a way to call her father in a respectful way, even though that she feared him. The irony here is that the title seems respectful, but the context is the contrary. She disrespects her father and accuses him of being the worst.
Some of the written symbols and signs that were in the poem, justified that her father was a Nazi, a German, and a heartless... a Hitler: Swastika: a Nazi symbol, Fascist: dictorial movement, Dachau: site of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz: site of the largest Nazi concentration camp, Belsen: site of another Nazi concentration camp, Gypsy: somebody who has a nomadic or unconventional lifestyle(informal), Luftwaffe: the German Air Force, gobbledygook: language that is difficult or impossible to understand, Aryan: a Nazi idea, a white person regarded as a racially superior, panzer: a German tank.
Works like these teach us a lesson, but it all depends on the person who reads it. Things like these shouldn’t be messed with.