Plath’s desire for her freedom

Plath’s desire for her freedom This poem was published in 1965. It can be seen from several of her works that she was inspired by Emily Dickinson, an American poet who was very brave to write the contents of her thoughts that contained deep meaning. Both of Plath last poems before she committed suicide such as "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" both have the same meaning about murder. Her father was a lecturer and was also a German soldier. Her poetry uses a lot of metaphors, similes, and other poetic devices which makes her poems have a very deep meaning. For this work Plath received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1982. This poem is in the genre of Poetry fiction short story, which was written for her father. She writes about her trauma, feelings, and desires as a feminist. Her poetry also influences people to this day about women's equal rights. According to her poetry, she writes the connotations of several languages ​​that make the reader feel the mood of this poem even more. For example “Ach du” “Polack” “Meinkamft” and “Swastika”. It was related to her father. In the first stanza “Black shoe” can be interpreted as his father, “In which I have lived like a foot” she is fenced off by “Black shoe” so she is like a prisoner. “Poor and white” is also a metaphor which means that she is not allowed to exercise her freedom, also supported by the sentence “Barely daring to breathe or Achoo”. The second stanza contains Plath's desire to kill her father "Daddy, I have to kill you". But her father died when she was eight years old. “Ghastly statue” is interpreted as his father who has no feelings. “Frisco seal” is the name of the great ocean located in San Francisco, interpreted as a view of Plath's mind. The third stanza “Where it pours bean green over blue” this is a picture, like where she prays for her father's recovery. “Ach du” means “Oh my God”. In the fourth stanza it can be interpreted, she wrote about the place where her father came from where the war took place; “In the German tongue, in the Polish town Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars ” In the fifth stanza, she talks about being unable to speak because she is afraid of her father. “The tongue stuck in my jaw”. So she only spoke in her heart. In addition, the sixth stanza has metaphor which has the same meaning as the previous stanza is also written "It stuck in a barb wire snare". It means her father is too fearful. "I thought every German was you" according to her, all Germans are like her father who has no feelings. “Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen” are camps founded by Germany during the Holocaust. “I began to talk like a Jew, I think I may well be a Jew” she felt this way because her father made her feel like she was being colonized. In the eighth stanza he speaks of two objects. Snow and beer that looks not clear and true like the Nazis. Then there's the repetition of the previous stanza “I may be a bit of a Jew”, “With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo And your neat mustache” she described the figure of a soldier driving a tank that is “Panzer man” (Her father used to be). “Gobbledygoo” means gibberish. In the tenth stanza, the Swastika is defined as the most sacred symbol in the Hindu tradition. "Not God but a swastika". Her father is not God but likes to be worshiped. Moreover, she also describes objects such as "The boot in the face, the brute" meaning, their attitude is rude. But they are idolized by many women. "Every woman adores a Fascist". In the eleventh stanza, he shows other objects such as a photo of his father standing in front of the blackboard, because his father is a lecturer, but the photo shows another side of his father, which is the devil. “In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot But no less a devil for that, no not Any less the black man who” In the twelfth stanza, this is the moment she returns to her past where Plath once loved her father so much, she even wanted to kill herself in order to meet her father. “At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you” The thirteenth stanza can be interpreted when Plath goes into a mental illness, because she wants to commit suicide “But they pulled me out of the sack, and they stuck me together with glue” Then she met a man who looked exactly like her father, who also looked like Hitler “I made a model of you, a man in black with a Meinkampf look” In her fourteenth stanza, she wrote that she eventually married a man who looked just like her father "And a love of the rack and the screw and I said I do, I do, so daddy, I'm finally through". She also describes the black phone as an intermediary for communication between Plath and her father who she says is exactly the same as her husband. But the voice just sounded less real “The black telephone's off at the root, the voices just can't worm through” In the fifteenth stanza, the Vampire as Plath's husband, drank her blood for a year, then Plath added “Seven years, if you want to know” “Daddy, you can lie back now” means daddy, you can go. In the last stanza. She wrote that people knew about her father's cruelty “They always knew it was you” and when her father died it was the most difficult time. But she finally moved on and let her father go “Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through”