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=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 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. 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
 * 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


 * 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.