Sylvia Plath Metaphors

In the famous Poem of Daddy by Sylvia Plath has a significant meaning of the subject of marriage and gender issues, as she express a hatred for the two most important male figures in her life. In the summary of the poem who let the readers know her father was an abusive man who was a fascist and a nazi. Plath uses many figurative metaphors to describe him for example “ You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot”(Lines 1-3). Plath truly describes him as a black shoe and notably, nazi’s wore black boots which was included in their uniforms. The significance of the color black is the symbol of something dark and evil and a shoe is something we walk on she must of felt as her father walked on her with his black shoe. The many more metaphors she describes her father throughout the poem was a God, a nazi, a swastika, and finally a vampire. The gender issue shown in the poem was said by Plath
In the lines of the poem mentioning gypsies and Jews were two of the many groups persecuted during the Holocaust. In the poem of Daddy gypsies and jews are meant to be seen as a female perspective and German Nazis are meant to be as her father and husband. Hence, women are portrayed as victims and men are portrayed as villains. Another example of a gender issue in the poem is mentioned in “Not Any less the black man who Bit my pretty red heart in two”(lines 54-56). This quote portrays the victimization of women in the time period of the holocaust and it portrays men as evil and with the color black, and woman as pretty and