Cultural and Historical Knowledge: Daddy:
In the poem "Daddy" Sylvia Plath, introduces her ethnicity in the poem as Half German and Polish. She has used some German word in her poems such as Ich, Du, and Ach, which "Ich" stands for "I" and "Du" stands for "you".
It Stuck In barb wire snare
Ich, Ich, Ich, Ich
I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, Du
But the name of the town was common.
My Polack Friend(Polsih)
She also relates the death of her father to the Nazi war, which is a very powerful topic in history. For example.
Not god but a swastika
so black no sky cloud squeak through
In here she mentions of the sign swastika, which tells me that her father died during the Nazi war and he might have been a German soldier who was hired to to kill Jews.
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