Sylvia Path's Daddy After doing some research on the poet Sylvia Plath it soon became apparent that this poem “Daddy” is somewhat of a confessional life story. Throughout the poem Plath incorporates many different elements to reveal the theme of her negative attitude towards men in her life especially that of her father. In lines 2-3 “Any more black shoe, In which I have lived like a foot.” Plath uses the image of feet and …showed first 75 words of 815 total…

…showed last 75 words of 815 total…are now six feet under with her father. Plath uses many different elements through out her poem “Daddy” to give the reader a strong, vivid picture of what her life was like when it came to her relationships with men. They were all unsuccessful and through out her struggle her entire life she has finally found the courage to let all that go and go on with her life without those cutting feelings inside her.