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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.
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"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.
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, Ghastly statue with one gray toe. Big as a Frisco seal.
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'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. This piece was written after her father died.
Daddy. Sylvia Plath. Track 31 on Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath. Producer. Ted Hughes. The poem is an extraordinary achievement, loaded with anger and brutal language and repetition of...
‘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 invented speaker talks to us about her father?
