The Violence of Plath's Dad "Daddy" is probably Plath's most famous poem. Critic George Steiner said: “It is a poem by which future generations will seek to know us.” He also called it "the Guernica of modern poetry." The violence of its images and its tone, the references to concentration camps, torture and fascism certainly evoke Picasso's most famous painting. Plath claimed that in this poem she adopted the persona of a girl with an Electra complex whose father had been a fascist, but although the poem is not completely autobiographical, it contains several obvious references to her own life. For example, here she refers to the photo of her father: “You are in front of the board, Dad, in the photo I have of you. » This is a direct image of the actual photograph the Plaths had of Otto in front of his painting at the University. Likewise, the "man in black with the Meinkampf look" and the "vampire" who "drank my blood" for "seven years" refer to her perception of Hughes to whom she had been married for seven years when she...