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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.
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.
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.
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.
Sylvia Plath. Track 24 on Ariel. Producer. Ted Hughes. The poem is an extraordinary achievement, loaded with anger and brutal language and repetition of emphatic ideas. Despite many...
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. 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.
