"Daddy, I Have Had to Kill You": Sylvia Plath's Father Poems

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10.2991/icessms-16.2017.127How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Sylvia Plath, father poem, death, suicide

Abstract

Sylvia Plath experiences her father's death as a symbolic loss against which she struggles by coveting his love and masculine, creative power in a poetic and primitive merger with him. In a large body of her father-poetry, Plath also makes the father evoke what is for her the equivalent of death. In addition, the dangerous and even deadly father-daughter relationship is often mingled with a "romantic" narrative that entails mutual attraction and sexual tension. Eventually, Daddy and daughter were psychologically and emotionally too intertwined to be separated, even in her death.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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