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The Ability to Take off Effectively Faith is something that we as humans give to people as we see fit. We lose faith in someone that lets us down. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” and Anne Sexton’s poem “After Auschwitz” address losing faith. In the poem “Daddy” the speaker loses faith in her father, and the speaker in “After Auschwitz” loses faith in the human race. Plath’s “Daddy” and Sexton’s “After Auschwitz” are two poems that stretch the imagination. One would confess that “Daddy” and “After Auschwitz” are different, but their differences allow us to understand each poem. The rhythm, and resolution each writer comes to at the end of their poem, contribute to the meaning of Plath’s poem “Daddy” and Sexton’s poem “After Auschwitz”. “Daddy” takes off like a four-ton turbo jet, while “After Auschwitz” takes off, sputters, and crashes to earth. While both poems are comprised of short to the point stanzas, the rhythm of these two poems is quite unique. The speaker of the poem “Daddy” has so much frustration. Frustration caused by her father has built up over the span of her life. As Plath’s poem takes off, her emotional state rockets her into the a