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Daddy. By Sylvia Plath. You do not do, you do not do. Any more, black shoe. In which I have lived like a foot. For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe. Big as a Frisco seal.
"Daddy" is a controversial and highly anthologized poem by the American poet Sylvia Plath. Published posthumously in 1965 as part of the collection Ariel, the poem was originally written in October 1962, a month after Plath's separation from her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, and four months before her death by suicide. It is a deeply complex ...
‘Daddy‘ by Sylvia Plath uses emotional, and sometimes, painful metaphors to depict the poet’s own opinion of her father. The poem begins with the speaker describing her father in several different, striking ways.
Sylvia Plath at twenty-eight years old sitting in her London flat during July 1961 "Daddy" is a poem written by American confessional poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was composed on October 12, 1962, one month after her separation from Ted Hughes and four months before her death.
Sylvia Plath. 1932 –. 1963. You do not do, you do not do. Any more, black shoe. In which I have lived like a foot. For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you.
Daddy. You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy, I have had to kill you.
Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute. Brute heart of a brute like you. You stand at the blackboard, daddy, In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of...
