The speaker in Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” reveals a love/hate relationship with the title character. While throughout the poem it is revealed that the speaker feels hatred, she also cannot escape from the affection she feels for him also. The final statement, “I’m through”, implies that the speaker is done trying to work on becoming closer and bandaging her broken relationship with Daddy. The speaker creates an image of her father, using metaphors and references to describe the relationship. Her father is a Nazi, devil, brute, vampire and bastard. However, the speaker feels she is tied down and cannot escape the barricades. Although the speaker wanted to be with her father, she was fearful of him because he was a Nazi. She illustrates her home as a “black shoe in which [she] lived like a foot.” Her childhood was dark and dreary with no father figure to look up to, as she grew up in the Polish town, Common. “Daddy, I have had to kill you/You died before I had time,” implies that the speaker had intended to kill her father yet, he had died before she had the opportunity to do so. “I used to pray to recover you.” Despite the hatred she feels towards her father, the speaker longed to be with her father and craved love. Nevertheless, she was never able to speak to him and claimed, “I never could talk to you/The tongue stuck in my jaw.” The speaker would become tongue-tied whenever she would try to talk to her father. Throughout the poem, there are references to Nazi Germany and the tortures that Jews had to endure throughout World War II. The speaker would recognize every German as her father and would become overwhelmed with emotions of nervousness and angst at the mention of her father. “I have always been afraid of you/With your Luftwaffe/And your Aryan eye, bright blue.” She claims that her father is a Nazi and would cuff her away to a concentration camp. The speaker reveals that she thought of herself l