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Daddy

Sylvia Plath

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1965
Pages
Pages 3

A daughter turns on the memory of the father who has loomed over her life like a black boot, and in a chant of nursery rhythms and war images finally declares herself through with him.

You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years
Daddy, Sylvia Plath

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