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"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
Title: "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 1162 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath.
The poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath has to do with change. How the main character seems angry at her father who passed away when she was 10, also how she tried to replace him, in essence recreate her "Daddy". The author uses very strong imagery and commanding allusions to portray these two men and the emotions she feels towards them.
At first glance, the poem seems very angry. In the first stanza the main character compares …showed first 75 words of 1162 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1162 total…voices just can't worm through.
If I've killed one man, I've killed two---
The vampire who said he was you
and drank my blood for a year,
Seven years, if you want to know.
Daddy, you can lie back now.
There's a stake in your fat, black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always *knew* it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.
-- Sylvia Plath
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