Full Fathom FiveIn Sylvia Plath's poem, "Full Fathom Five", she describes her father in beautiful, abstract terms that signify aspects of the relationship Plath had with her father. This poem, along with other works by Sylvia Plath, provides insight into the type of relationship she might have had with her father. The images Plath uses to describe her father are reminiscent of fairy tails and monsters, where the idea she gives me, in her father, is a larger-than-life character who is made of the sea; huge, with white hair and beard. She describes her father's hair as a huge net, which gives him a larger than life size, common to a young girl's perception of her father. Another word that comes to mind when I think of her father is that he was an extremely unfathomable figure in Plath's life, which is very possible given that her father died when she was barely eight years. This corresponds to the title of the poem “Full Fathom Five”. Plath's view of her father as this great, fable-like mythical character. In the poem, she describes him as someone who “rarely surfaces.” This phrase refers to the fact that she hadn't known her father for long, and by the time she did (from birth to eight years old), she was quite small and vulnerable compared to her father's formidable presence. Another clue to Plath's reverence for her father is her reference to him being "inscrutable." A young child is very likely to view his father as difficult to approach or to ask him questions. An ideal father is one who is loving and approachable, but Plath's description of her own father conveys neither of these characteristics. Undoubtedly, the troubled childhood that can be inferred from this poem is consistent with later events in Sylvia Plath's life. Plath went through years of depression, before committing suicide in 1964. I suspect Plath had a lot of anger over her father's death, perhaps for leaving her so soon. Yet, at the same time, she expresses anger at the life her father led when he was alive, which implies a certain sense of unsoundness in their relationship. Plath wrote another poem about her father called "Daddy" in which, among other things, Plath calls her father a bastard..