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In your opinion, what is the effect of the comparison between the Sylvia Plath's father and Nazis, in her poem "Daddy"?

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Question added by Dina Al Khatib , Product Manager , Bayt.com
Date Posted: 2016/02/10
Nila Eslit
by Nila Eslit , Content Writer for Fitness web , George Allen

I'm sorry I can't help you on this. I haven't read the poem.

Francis Panikulam
by Francis Panikulam , Head of the English faculty , ISM International School.

             Sylvia's father was a Nazi sympathizer and her mother,a Jew.The Holocaust was all about Nazis exterminating Jews.Sylvia actually against Hitlers's campaign to annihilate all the jews.Sylvia actually loved her father just like any other daughter but she was caught in a mental dilemma between love for her father and love for her mother who was a Jew. This mental angst is the trauma brought out in the poem as a kind of inescapable frustration, even calling him a bastard.

              One need not take the poem as an allegory of the Holocaust or is the poem necessarily autobographical. The poem is symbolic of the struggle in Sylvia's mind since her daddy's death.

Yahia mohamed  Amen Gad
by Yahia mohamed Amen Gad , إدارة - مدرب - , سنابل الأجيال للتعليم والتدريب

Thank you very much for your kind invitation and apologized for the lack of this El Mamy

عبد الرحمن ابراهيم محمد العمايره
by عبد الرحمن ابراهيم محمد العمايره , معلم , وزارة التربية والتعليم

I do not know what you are talking about because it is not my specialty field

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