Clusters of Images in Daddy Images in literature provide the writer with a tool to establish a point of view or perspective. The author can use an unlimited amount of symbols, similes, and metaphors that produce an atmosphere for the reader to visualize the story effectively. In the poem "Daddy", written by Sylvia Plath, the author uses numerous groups of images to represent the fury and wrath of a mad woman haunted by her father's frightening and domineering nature. Plath uses these images to describe the emotional chaos that controlling fathers inflict on their offspring. One of the most important sets of images that Plath uses to show the turmoil and fear that the narrator feels for her father is the comparison to Nazi Germany, the devil's hooves, and a vampire. Evil and mean images flourish in "Daddy." The speaker characterizes his father as a Nazi. Phrases such as "With your Luftwaffe" (l. 42), "your trimmed mustache and your Aryan eye" (l. 43), and "Panzer-man, panzer-man" (l. 45) fill the poem with imagery by Deutsch...