Sylvia Plath 'Daddy'
"Daddy" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath shortly before her death. It was written on October 12, 1962 and published in Ariel [1] in 1965. Critics have viewed the poem as a response to Plath's complicated relationship with her father, Otto Plath, who died shortly after she had turned eight as a result of diabetes [2]. Plath's vivid use of imagery and controversial use of the Holocaust as a metaphor contributes to the popularity of the poem.
A Fragment of "Daddy"
You do not do, you do not do
Sylvia Plath
- Any more, black shoe
- In which I have lived like a foot
- For thirty years, poor and white,
- Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
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- 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.
- Ach, du.
- In the German tongue, in the Polish town
- Scraped flat by the roller
- Of wars, wars, wars.
- But the name of the town is common.
- My Polack friend
- Says there are a dozen or two.
- So I never could tell where you
- Put your foot, your root,
- I never could talk to you.
- The tongue stuck in my jaw.
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