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Daddy by Sylvia Plath - Poems | Academy of American Poets. 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. You died before I had time— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
‘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. He is, at once, a “black shoe” she was trapped within, a vampire, a fascist and a Nazi.
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.
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...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Daddy’ is undoubtedly Sylvia Plath’s most widely studied poem, and it is probably her most famous too. It is also her most controversial. But is ‘Daddy’ a searingly honest exploration of Plath’s own relationship with her father, or something closer to the dramatic monologue in which an ...
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.
“Daddy” by Sylvia Plath is a compelling and emotionally charged poem that delves into the complex relationship between the speaker and her father. Written in 1962 and published posthumously in 1965 in the collection “Ariel,” this poem stands out as one of Plath’s most powerful and controversial works.
