Disambiguation evidence for Daddy via surface form

"Daddy (poem)"


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Predicate Object
author Sylvia Plath
characterType lyric speaker
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReputation highly controversial for its Holocaust metaphors
criticalReputation 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
instanceOf confessional poem
instanceOf poem
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."
notableLine "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through."
notableLine "Every woman adores a Fascist."
notableLine "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
subjectOf feminist literary analysis
theme Holocaust imagery
theme anger
theme grief
theme identity
theme liberation from oppression
theme oppression
theme patriarchy
theme psychological conflict
theme the father–daughter relationship
theme trauma
tone accusatory
tone angry
tone confessional
tone intense
usesImageryOf Nazism
usesImageryOf Holocaust
surface form: the Holocaust
usesImageryOf vampirism
yearWritten 1962