In this poem that parallels a biography of Sylvia Plath, she writes about her father whom she describes the relationship she has with him in two very different ways.  It is evident that her dad has passed away, and she is thirty years old when she is writing this.  She first says in the poem that she must have killed her father, but then in the next stanza she says how she prayed to try and recover him.  She has a love-hate relationship with him as her feelings towards him keep switching back and fourth throughout the poem.  Also within the poem are many references to Jewish terms, German terms, and things that lead you to think that her father was a Nazi such as Frisco seal, Nauset, Ach du, ich, Dachau, Belsen, Auschwitz, Tyrol, Taroc, Luftwaffe, swastika, fascist, Meinkampf, etc.  Deep down it seems like she misses her father, but in contrast she is also in someway mad at him and herself that he is gone.  Towards the end of the poem she says how she even tried to get back to her father, meaning that she was going to commit suicide to once again reunite with him.  Since her attempt failed, she tried to “make a model of him” or put someone in her father’s place, meaning she married a man who she thought would replace him.  After many attempts of getting her father back to her, in the end she finally gives up on him and is “through” with him.