Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" is a poem that certainly contains a great amount of imagery. Holocaust images are used to describe her father and her lover. This demonstrates her disdain for them because when you compare someone to something as grim and terrible as the Nazis and the Holocaust, it shows how much you despise something. She uses words that inscribe emotions felt when talking about the nazis such as "swastika", "panzer-man", and "facist". For this a poem, the image of someone being tied down comes to mind. The image i chose is an image of someone with their hands tied together by a rope. I chose this image because to me, it represents the idea of being controlled by someone that the poem conveys. Plath is controlled by the men in her life and her life is greatly influenced by them. Both her father and her lover have done her wrong and she hates them for doing so. The picture relates because the men in her life are tying her down and controlling her life.
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I think the image you chose is a very powerful one and it not only shows someone confined and bound by someone who uses their power against them, but it also looks like it could be the arms of a holocaust victim simply because it is in black and white and the arms look very skinny and angular, as if the person may have been starved.
The image you chose definately matches the emotions and feelings in the poem. She felt trapped and tied down by the men in her life. The black and white color of the image represents the color 'black' being used throughout the poem. Another picture that would have really captured this poem is that of a sad or forlorn looking person, one who is lonely and depressed. Maybe the image of a boot stomping on something smaller than it.
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