All the feelings that Sylvia Plath has: angry, lonely, frustrated.
Angry: Sylvia Plath was very angry because she didn’t want to see her dad, but deep down she missed him very much, one of her quotations was, ” Daddy I have had to kill you, you died before I had time.” This means that she wanted to kill him in the first place before anyone killed him because she was so mad at him for what he has done to her. Another quotation was, ” I used to pray to recover you, ach du.” Which means that she wanted him back again and so she can do what she wanted to do to her father and that was to hurt his feelings very bad.
Frustration: She uses different languages to use her frustration on her father by using German, for example one of her quotations was, ” Ich Ich Ich Ich.” Which shows and tells us that she is in disgust with her father. When you say the word, “Ich” out loud, it’s like you have a really sore throat and you want to get the words out of there so you can be clear on what you say when you speak to someone or yourself.
Lonely: She tells us what it is like without a dad and tells us what it feels like. It was the same quotation she used before and that was, ” I used to pray to recover you.” Which tells us that she was very lonely and wants him back, but then she doesn’t.t want him back, it is a very complicated relationship between these two. Another quotation was, ” You do not do, you do not do any more, black shoe in which I have lived like a foot for thirty years poor and white.” It tells us that she was lived in an empty shoe for at least thirty years in a metorphorical way comparing a shoe towards her dad and there was no one there to comfort her, this means that she was trapped and disgusted living in an empty shoe.
The poem called, “Daddy” shows and tells us about Sylvia’s relationship with her dad in the past which shows and expresses her feelings with a lot of anger and sadness and trapped, one of her quotations was, ” I have always been scared of you.” Another quotation was, ” Daddy, daddy you bastard I hate you.” It looks like her voice is raised at a high level with a lot of angry feelings and shows us how she feels about her own dad.
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