Question

Which historical allusions does the speaker controversially use in the poem?

• A. American Civil War
• B. Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• C. French Revolution
• D. Ancient Rome

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Plath uses Holocaust imagery (e.g., “Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen,” “swastika,” “Panzer-man”) to express the oppressive, tyrannical influence she felt from her father and later her husband.