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It is a deeply complex poem informed by the poet's relationship with her deceased father, Otto Plath. Told from the perspective of a woman addressing her father, the memory of whom has an oppressive power over her, the poem details the speaker's struggle to break free of his influence.
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.
Sylvia Plath's poem 'Daddy' explores the complicated and troubled relationship between a father and daughter. The speaker describes her father in powerful and oppressive terms, suggesting a sense of both love and hate.
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 wrote her controversial poem “Daddy” in 1962, during the furiously productive period that preceded her death by suicide in February 1963. “Daddy” features a first-person speaker who addresses her deceased father.
Let’s take a closer look at this difficult and surprising poem, first by summarising its content and then by turning to an analysis of its broader meaning. Plath wrote ‘Daddy’ in a single day, on 12 October 1962, just four months before she took her own life. Summary.
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. And a head in the freakish Atlantic. Where it pours bean green over blue. In the waters off beautiful Nauset. I used to pray to recover you.
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 your foot, But no less a devil for that, no not. Any less the ...
"Daddy" is perhaps Sylvia Plath's best-known poem. It has elicited a variety of distinct reactions, from feminist praise of its unadulterated rage towards male dominance, to wariness at its usage of Holocaust imagery.
Daddy, poem by Sylvia Plath, published posthumously in 1965 in the collection Ariel. One of Plath’s most famous poems, “Daddy” was completed during a brief prolific period of writing before her suicide in February 1963. In images that progress from domestic to demonic, the poem confronts a woman’s.
