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Article: Plath's 'Daddy.' (interpretation of Sylvia Plath's poem)
- Article from:
- The Explicator
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
- Author:
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Images of victimization in Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" - of Nazis, swastikas, barbed wire, fascists, brutes, devils, and vampires - are so frantic, imposing, and vituperative that the poem seems more out of control than it actually is. When read rapidly and angrily, without ample attention paid to its many unexpected pauses, Plath's poem, indeed, seems like a runaway train barreling through one psychic nightmare after the other, until the speaker pulls the emergency cord that irrevocably separates the self from the tormenting other in the very last line: "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."(1) While the poem's irregular enjambment makes some of the stanzas (for ...
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Article: Daddies.(poem)
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...Daddies are special. Daddies are nice. Daddies are sometimes full of spice. I love my daddy And you should, too. He loves you right back, No matter what you do.
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