Themes: Feminism, mortality, freedom and confinement.
The narrators Daddy in this poem is first compared to a german and several references are made to this throughout the poem. This poem was written in 1962, a time when women were fighting for their rights. The narrator is unable to connect with her father throughout her life due to their differences. Back to the german reference, Germans were seen as awful people due to World War II so the comparison to her father hints that she did not like her father like normal children. The narrator wants to have a connection with her father but has a hard time doing so. The narrator also appears to be obsessed with mortality. Not only that of herself, but also her father. When her father dies, she contemplates killing herself in order to be reunited with him. Also the ideas of freedom and confinement relate to feminism during the 1960's when women were fighting for their rights.
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