Daddy

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"Daddy" is a powerful and controversial confessional poem by Sylvia Plath that explores themes of trauma, oppression, and the speaker’s fraught relationship with her father.

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instanceOf confessional poem
poem
author Sylvia Plath
characterType lyric speaker
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation highly controversial for its Holocaust metaphors
one of Sylvia Plath’s most famous poems
dateWritten 1962
firstPublicationYear 1965
form first-person monologue
genre confessional poetry
includedIn The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath
influencedBy Sylvia Plath’s relationship with her father Otto Plath
language English
lineCount 80
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
meter loosely structured free verse with nursery-rhyme rhythms
movement Confessional poetry
surface form: Confessional poetry movement
notableLine "Daddy, I have had to kill you."
"Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through."
"Every woman adores a Fascist."
"I think I may well be a Jew."
poet Sylvia Plath
posthumouslyPublished true
publishedIn Ariel (poem)
surface form: Ariel (poetry collection)
rhymeScheme irregular
stanzaCount 16
subject a daughter’s relationship with her father
subjectOf extensive literary criticism
feminist literary analysis
theme Holocaust imagery
anger
grief
identity
liberation from oppression
oppression
patriarchy
psychological conflict
the father–daughter relationship
trauma
tone accusatory
angry
confessional
intense
usesImageryOf Nazism
Holocaust
surface form: the Holocaust

vampirism
yearWritten 1962

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Sylvia Plath notableWork Daddy