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"Daddy" Poem Analysis & Annotations

This document contains annotations for the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. The annotations provide definitions for unfamiliar words and phrases, identify literary devices, discuss imagery and symbolism, and analyze the meaning and significance of certain lines/stanzas. In particular, the annotations examine how the poem explores the speaker's complex relationship with her father and grapples with German history/heritage in the aftermath of World War II.

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"Daddy" Poem Analysis & Annotations

This document contains annotations for the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. The annotations provide definitions for unfamiliar words and phrases, identify literary devices, discuss imagery and symbolism, and analyze the meaning and significance of certain lines/stanzas. In particular, the annotations examine how the poem explores the speaker's complex relationship with her father and grapples with German history/heritage in the aftermath of World War II.

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Last Name 1

Macario Rosas

Tubbs

ENGL 1302-129

3/31/20

“Daddy” Annotations

 Line 2- black shoe- images

 Line 3- “I have lived like a foot”- simile

 Line 4- “For thirty years, poor and white- images, probably old stressed person.

 Stanza 1- ABABA rhyme pattern

 Line 6- Daddy, I have had to kill you- words, kill is a really strong word and ties into the

poem.

 Line 8- Marble-heavy, a bag full of God- Metaphor, God is like marbles.

 Line 8- God- religious symbol

 Line 9- Ghastly- Definition- great horror or fear.

 Line 9- Ghastly statue with one gray toe- images

 Line 10- Big as a Frisco seal- simile

 Line 11- head in the freakish Atlantic- images

 Line 12- bean green over blue-word choice, green over the oceans, beautiful scenery.

 Stanza 3- ABABB rhyme pattern

 Line 17- Scraped flat by the roller- images

 Line 18- Of wars, wars, wars- repetition, emphasizing the importance of the war.
Last Name 2

 Line 20- Polack-Definition- Person from Poland

 Line 21- My Polack friend, says there are a dozen or two- Maybe the number of soldiers?

 Line 25- The tongue stuck in my jaw- Couldn’t speak?

 Line 26- It stuck in a barb wire snare- Emphasizing or significance?

 Line 27-Ich- repetition, also definition for “I”, stutter

 Line 29- I thought every German was you- Speaking about her dad.

 Stanza 6- ABCAC rhyme pattern

 Line 32- chuffing-definition- regular sharp puffing sound

 Line 32- Chuffing me off like a Jew- Simile

 Line 35- I think I may well be a Jew- phrase, she feels sympathy for the Jews.

 Line 38- gypsy-ancestress- maybe comparing her luck to witchcraft?

 Line 41- I have always been scared of you- towards Nazi Germans.

 Stanza 9- AABAA rhyme pattern- also, describes Germans

 Line 47- So black no sky could squeak through- metaphor

 Line 53- Cleft chin- definition- Y shaped dimple chin

 Line 62- Stuck me together like glue- Did not let her leave and die

 Line 69- Black telephone’s off at the root- maybe black telephone is the communication

with her dad

 Line 76- There’s a stake in your fat black heart- Not thinking of her “Vampire-like”

father anymore.

 Line 80- Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through- No more thinking of her dead Nazi

vampire father.

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