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Sylvia Plath “Daddy”Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of Sylvia Plath reading one of her best known poems "Daddy" "Daddy" is a poem written by the American Poet Sylvia Plath. It was written on October 12, 1962, shortly before her death, and published posthumously in Ariel in 1965.[1] The poem's implications and thematic concerns have been discussed academically with differing conclusions.[2] The relative popularity of "Daddy" can be attributed to Plath's vivid use of imagery[1] and controversial use of the Holocaust[2] as a metaphor. Critics have also viewed "Daddy" as a response to Plath's complex relationship with her father, Otto Plath,[3] who died shortly after her eighth birthday as a result of undiagnosed diabetes. Sylvia Plath, introducing the poem for a BBC radio reading shortly before her suicide, famously described the poem as about "a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God.".[5] Coupled with morbid imagery, the narrator's childlike intonation evokes a keen state of unease in the reader throughout the poem, climaxing in the final lines "Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through". "Daddy" deals with a girl's deep attachment to the memory of her father and the unhappiness it caused in her life.[citation needed] It can also be seen as an outlet for Plath to deal with her father's death or her husband's betrayal.[citation needed] She does this through reinventing the relationship as one between a Nazi and a Jew, creating an "oppressor-oppressed" dynamic. The poem ...
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