Abuse, maltreatment and persecution are all synonyms of oppression which happened between the Nazis and Jews, during World War II. In Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy,” she introduces the notion of oppression by comparing her father to the Nazis and herself to the Jews, with the use of multiple literary devices. In “Daddy,” Plath uses allusion, imagery and metaphor with a mix of hyperbole to develop the theme of oppression.
In the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath uses allusion to express her father’s oppression towards her. The author uses multiple allusions to refer how the Jews were oppressed by the Nazis, which is how she is feeling but by her father. For example, when she says, “with my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck”, this is an allusion suggesting she may be like a Jew. Because, during World War II, gypsies were treated just like Jews, given that they were considered impure too. Plath also uses allusion to represent her father being like a Nazi. For example, she says, “Panzer-man, panzer-man, O-You”. This is a really simple allusion of him being a Nazi, because the word “panzer” means a tank for German-speakers1 and “panzer-man” means a German tank …show more content…
In the 10th stanza she declares how her father is not God anymore, more specifically she says, “Not God but a swastika so black no sky could squeak through.” Here she changes from comparing him to being like a God, who is good, to a swastika, meaning that he has become a really bad and evil person and makes a hyperbole, of the swastika being so black that it lets no sky go through, meaning it’s really evil and has absolutely no good in it. This mix of metaphor and hyperbole explains how bad he was.
Finally, throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy,” many of the literary devices are present. She uses allusion, imagery and metaphor with a mix of hyperbole to develop the theme of oppression that her father caused on
In the poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath uses allusion to express her father’s oppression towards her. The author uses multiple allusions to refer how the Jews were oppressed by the Nazis, which is how she is feeling but by her father. For example, when she says, “with my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck”, this is an allusion suggesting she may be like a Jew. Because, during World War II, gypsies were treated just like Jews, given that they were considered impure too. Plath also uses allusion to represent her father being like a Nazi. For example, she says, “Panzer-man, panzer-man, O-You”. This is a really simple allusion of him being a Nazi, because the word “panzer” means a tank for German-speakers1 and “panzer-man” means a German tank …show more content…
In the 10th stanza she declares how her father is not God anymore, more specifically she says, “Not God but a swastika so black no sky could squeak through.” Here she changes from comparing him to being like a God, who is good, to a swastika, meaning that he has become a really bad and evil person and makes a hyperbole, of the swastika being so black that it lets no sky go through, meaning it’s really evil and has absolutely no good in it. This mix of metaphor and hyperbole explains how bad he was.
Finally, throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Daddy,” many of the literary devices are present. She uses allusion, imagery and metaphor with a mix of hyperbole to develop the theme of oppression that her father caused on