Daddy Sylvia Plath Figurative Language

“Writing is the painting of the voice” -Voltaire. Writing since she was 11 years old, Sylvia Plath, was an extraordinary girl with a troublesome mind. In 1962, shortly before her death Plath wrote one of her most significantly popular poems “Daddy”. This poem is about Path’s regards towards her father. It describes the relationship they had and how it affected her. Her fathers way of being did not only affect her during childhood but even after the day she got married to the end of her life. Upon reading, one can clearly imagine the way Sylvia Plath lived, and was burdened with sadness her whole life. She does not fail to allow readers to understand her life and all its events. Sylvia Plath uses figurative language throughout the poem “Daddy”
A “marble-heavy, a bag full of God” says Plath, depicts the way she thought of him. As said in these lines of the poem the reader can conclude that the bag is probably the body bag of her fathers deceased body, or “the skin around our bodies is nothing but a bag”(citation). Either or, it shows the conflicted thoughts towards her father. Plath describes it as being “full of God”. Through this one can analyze and say that Sylvia probably thought of her father as an abominable superior. We do not know what her views towards God are, but by her descriptions the reader can analyze that they are negative. Plath claims that the body bag containing her father is “marble-heavy” showing the reader that her father was a burden. He was a manipulative, stubborn, and controlling man. By what is portrayed in the poem, readers can conclude that Plath’s view of God was a negative one. For her, her father played the role of God in her life instead of just being a caring father. All this goes to show and give a voice towards Plath’s resentment towards
Her most illustrious writing, “Daddy” grants a boundless amount of insight into her life as a daughter of a heartless father. In this poem, Sylvia Plath portrays the resentment and disgust towards him. Through the use of comparison, metaphors, and imagery Plath clearly interprets the troubled complex perspective towards her father. Readers are able to deeply understand why Plath regards negatively to him the way she does, and why it continued its impact to her adulthood, and partially lead to her depressive