*** Linda Hutcheon sheds light on this technique of "[Plath's poetry].

seen as a feminist reworking (or parody) of the modes of male modernism in which she inherited". Its a very touchy subject, and it may be defined that we are too close to the event to turn the Holocaust into a metaphor. But that is exactly what Sylvia Plath did, audaciously wielding the power of metaphor to the extreme. In these two poems, Lady Lazarus and Daddy, Plath re-invents herself to be a persecuted Jewish woman punished by the Nazis-metaphorically the male dominion that crushes her freedom of self-expression and sense of individuality. One of Plaths most common uses of holocaust imagery is to show her suffering. It also may be said that Plath uses holocaust imagery to show how tortured she felt by her father. The use of holocaust imagery in Plaths poems to a certain level enhances the readers understanding of how Plath felt this situation when she wrote her poetry. Sylvia compares her father to Nazis through the use of holocaust. She does this to demonize her father and make him out to be the perpetrator of many crimes. Stan Smith in Inviolable Voice: History and the Twentieth Century Poetry is drawing on Althussers notion of Interpellation: Plath is infact a profoundly political poet, who has seen the generic nature of these private catastrophes, their origin in a civilization founded on mass manipulation and collective trickery, which recruits its agents by those processes of repression and sublimation, denial and deferment which bring the ego to its belated birth in a family, a class, a gender.