Problem
I. List metaphors the speaker uses for herself and for her father in Plath's "Daddy."
II. In A Disturbance in Mirrors: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath, what does Anna's identify as the central goal of "Daddy"? What images from the poem does Anna's highlight to illustrate this goal?
III. Why might Axelrod (in Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words) argue that "'Daddy' enacts the woman poet's struggle with 'daddy-poetry'"? Does "Daddy" seem to be a poem about the suffering of women, especially women poets? Why or why not?
IV. In "The Poetics of Torture: The Spectacle of Sylvia Plath's Poetry," what is Narbeshuber's view of the importance of Plath's treatment of both public and private spheres? What might Plath be suggesting by blurring the boundary between public and private discourse?