Freedom from male oppression in Daddy by Sylvia PlathWord Count includes a poemSylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" describes her feelings of oppression from her childhood and evokes the struggle that many women face in a man's world. dominated society. The conflict in this poem pits male authority against a woman's right to control her own life and be free from male domination. Plath's conflicts begin with her father and continue into the relationship between her and her husband. This conflict is examined in lines 71-80 of "Daddy" in which Plath compares the damage caused by her father to that of her husband. The short stanzas containing powerful imagery overwhelm readers, forcing them to imagine the oppression the speaker experienced within herself. short life. The tone of this poem is that of an adult in the grip of indignation and who often slips into a childish dialect; this is evident when the speaker continually uses the word "Daddy" and also repeats himself quite often. The last two stanzas of the poem, in particular, paint a bleak picture of the lives of women who find themselves under a dominant male figure. The passage seems to show that the speaker has come to a resolution after being held under the thumb of one man her entire life. In lines 71-80, the speaker compares her father and husband to vampires saying how they betrayed her and drank her blood. -suck her dry with her life. She tells her father to give up and get it over with, to lie down" (line 75) and in line 80 she says, "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, Plath's attitude towards men s is expressed in this passage through its imagery of the villagers stomping and dancing over the dead vampire. The speaker says, “If I killed one man, did I kill two?” which most likely means all men are in the middle of paper......to die59 And come back, come back, come back to you60 I thought even the bones would do.61 But they took me out of the world . bag,62 And they glued me back together with glue.63 And then I knew what to do.64 I made a model of you,65 A man in black with a Meinkampf look66 And a love of housewarming and of the screw.67 And I said yes, yes.68 So dad, I'm finally done.69 The black phone is off at the root,70 The voices just can't sneak in.71 If I have killed one man, I killed two?72 The vampire who said he was you73 And drank my blood for a year,74 Seven years, if you want to know.75 Dad, you can lie down now.76 There's something at stake in your big black heart77 And the villagers never loved you.78 They dance and trample you.79 They always knew it was you.80 Dad, dad, you bastard, I finished.October 12 1962(#183)