Daddy

Daddy: A Daughter’s love For Her Father
Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a poem of strong emotions and feelings of a daughter towards her father. This poem expresses the gut wrenching torment that the speaker of the poem had to go through for her father being who he is, and at the same time feeling those unbelievable loving emotions that only a daughter can feel for her father. Plath tends to lead readers on throughout the poem by having the speaker of the poem express many different emotions towards her father. At one point in the poem Plath has the audience thinking that the speaker of the poem is upset and angry with her father, and then suddenly reverses the daughter’s thoughts into how great a dad her father really was. Plath shows readers that even though the daughter’s father was evil that maybe she could look past that and still love him.
At the beginning of Plath’s poem she explains to the audience that the daughter’s father is the cruel...