My view of Daddy
In the poem Daddy the writer Sylvia Plath was always feeling sorry for herself. It seems as if she had a deeper problem and reading about her, helped me see that there was more to it, such as manic depression. Her father left her at a young age going to war. She blamed her dad for many things, for leaving and not acting as if he even had a daughter, when he was gone. Must have never wrote to her much or made any contact with her at all. Dont understand how someone could hold on to this for so long though, she tried forgetting about him and even meet someone and married him but it didnt last. This made her commit suicide eventually.
Sylvia wrote, For thirty years poor and white (3). There are many poor people, and white in those days where treated much better than any black. Blacks were in worse conditions then yourself thats not that bad blacks where getting killed just because there color of skin! It might be very hard getting over your dad but reading the poem it sounds like she barely knew him. Sylvia is now thirty he left when you where very young around ten years old, dont linger on it just isnt right for your childrens sake thats selfish.
Daddy I had to kill you.(6)You died before I had time.(7) Meaning she had forgot about him in her mind. She finally got her dad out of her mind, and went back to thinking of him after feeling sorry for herself again because her marriage didnt work. Many marriages dont work out just have to try hard and make it through. She explained that some when writing And I said I do, I do (67) If Ive killed one man, Ive killed two (71) The Vampire who said he was you. (72) Her Husband was with her, and left her just like her father. That made her think of ex husband like a vampire, sucking the blood out of her the whole time they were together.
Sylvia died at the age of thirty one, killed herself by gas from her oven, she left on. Very depressed women she didnt even think of her children who were young also. She did the same to her children as her dad did to her. Manic depression must be hard to get through in life for some people. Daddy was a nice poem she wrote, explained a lot of what she was going through and enlightened everyone that she wasnt thinking properly. Hopefully her children didnt do the same as she did.
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