Download Sylvia Plath Daddy Poem Background. Daddy is a controversial and highly anthologized poem by the american poet sylvia plath. Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the estate of sylvia plath.

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Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the estate of sylvia plath. I think 'daddy' in this poem certainly represents plath's own father; You do not do, you do not do any more, black shoe in which i have lived like a foot for thirty years, poor and white, barely daring to breathe or works dealing with this poem:

Plath uses metaphor in conjunction with the hyperbole to create very strong imagery related to her feelings about her father.

The poem begins with the speaker describing sylvia plath (read her biography here) begins daddy with her present understanding of her father and the kind of man that he was. Daddy poem by sylvia plath. It's become my solace and my reset button. According to scholars this poem is autobiographical about plath's own father.