In Sylvia Plath's short but tumultuous lifetime, she endured many heartaches and difficulties, which she expresses in her poem "Daddy". In this poem, she "expresses the kind of anger that most women suppress" (17). Plath's failed marriage to British poet Ted Hughes caused her to have a negative view of men in her life, and she applies this view to her father in "Daddy". In the opening of the poem she states, "You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe/In which I have lived in like a foot/For thirty years, poor and white,/ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo" (lines 1-5). Plath stated in one o
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