Identify and discuss briefly a symbol, metaphor, or simile in Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” which can be analyzed using historical criticism.

Sylvia Plath a wonderful, talented poet in
Daddy portrays herself as being totally controlled and dominated by
her father. She refers to herself as the foot and her father as the black shoe, black
symbolizing gloom and despair. She alludes to her depression because she is bound to the
memory of her father, even in death. She feels her father controls her even though he is
dead. She resents him and blames him for leaving her. In mockery of her father she
refers to God. She alludes to sickness and nausea when she contrasts the colors of the
water, "bean green" and blue.

She feels as though she could
be a Jew being transported to a death camp and her father is the commander of the camp.
She compares her father to the Devil because of the cleft on the fathers chin and the
cleft on the hoof's of the devil. A consuming theme of darkness is illustrated by the
black telephone.