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Daddy Problems
The speaker of Sylvia Plath's poem, ”Daddy,” both loves and hates her father, as he died
and left her alone at a young and critical age
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Through the tone,
style, and theme, the author is able to communicate a deeper meaning that covers her hatred for
her father, and for men in general
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The speaker’s father has died, but he has and will always haunt her with the domination of
her life, and so she as she struggles against it, she expresses the tone of anger, and even imagines
killing his ghost
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All those images suggest brutality, inhumanity, and heartlessness
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The style of the poem is childlike, which is evident even from the title, “Daddy,” which is
a word that usually only children use
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This sets up a
pattern of repetition and end rhyme with the ‘ooh’ sound: “do,” “shoe,” “achoo,” “you,” “blue,”
“du,” “two,” “Jew
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These simple, mono-syllabic words
paired with words like “chuffing” and “Luftwaffe” make it seem like there is an internal struggle
between being a ‘daddy’s girl’ and an adult woman
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For example, it says, “Bit my pretty
red heart in two
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At twenty I tried to die and get back, back,
back to you
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” The simple word choice creates a contrast with
the mentioned suicide attempt and her wish to be with her father in death
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A major theme in this poem is feminism
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It's not limited to addressing one male, but any male who has hurt, betrayed, or
died and left behind their daughters and wives
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It was written in
the 1960s, when feminists fought for women's rights and made big progress in the way that gender was viewed in society
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” This could be interpreted as straying away from feminism
because it is portraying her as weak’ however, a better interpretation is that women have been
dominated by men for long enough, and this poem is her way of breaking off her emotional and
physical need from her father, and also men in general
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Through the tone, style, and theme, Sylvia Plath reveals a deeper meaning that
covers the speaker’s complex relationship with her father, and with men in general

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