Daddy (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sylvia Plath
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Parents and children
The Poem
Written on October 12, 1962—four months before her suicide—Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a “confessional” poem of eighty lines divided into sixteen five-line stanzas. The persona, a daughter speaking in the first person, seeks to resolve the manifold conflicts with her father and paternal authority that have dogged her life. Her readiness for the task is unambiguously evident in the first stanza’s opening lines: “You do not do, You do not do/ Anymore.”
“Daddy,” begins the second stanza, “I have had to kill you.” The deceased, titanic...
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