sylvia plath-

daddy
1932-1963
 Who ıs she ?

● born on October 27, 1932 in Boston

● her father was a German immigrant
● confessional poetry
● suffered from severe depression
● married Ted Hughes in 1956
● killed herself on February 11, 1963
daddy

October 12, 1962

● Electra complex
● Genre of confessional poetry
● Feminist movement
● Resulted in her rise to fame
 Otto Plath,
Sylvia Plath's father

01
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 Achoo.
 02
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
You died before I had time
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
Big as a Frisco seal
 03
And a head in the freakish Atlantic
Where it pours bean green over blue

In the waters off beautiful Nauset.

I used to pray to recover you.
Ach, du.
 Themes
● Freedom and
● LIfe and death
confınement

● Gender / ● Communıcatıon and

femınısm language
 Poetic Devıces
Metaphor the comparison of two Assonance the recurrence of
unlike things not using like/as similar vowel sounds

Symbolism one person/place/thing is a Enjambment the continuation of

symbol for, or represents, some greater a sentence after the line breaks
value/idea

Onomatopoeia a word imitates the

sound that it is referring to

Simile the comparison of two unlike

things using like/as.
 Mini quiz!

“...Barely daring to breathe or

Achoo.”
Which literary device is used in the line ?

A) Simile
B) Enjambment
C) Metaphor
D) Onomatopoeia
E) Assonance
D) Onomatopoeia
THANK YOU

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