"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath - Statistics

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  • The average score is 11 of 81
Answer Stats
Answer % Correct
Any more, black shoe
83%
You do not do,
67%
You do not do
67%
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.
33%
I thought every German was you.
33%
Ach, du.
17%
A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.
17%
And a head in the freakish Atlantic
17%
And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack
17%
And the language obscene
17%
And your Aryan eye, bright blue.
17%
And your neat mustache
17%
An engine, an engine,
17%
Are not very pure or true.
17%
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.
17%
Big as a Frisco seal
17%
Brute heart of a brute like you.
17%
But the name of the town is common.
17%
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
17%
Daddy, I have had to kill you.
17%
Every woman adores a Fascist,
17%
For thirty years, poor and white,
17%
Ghastly statue with one gray toe
17%
I began to talk like a Jew.
17%
Ich, ich, ich, ich,
17%
I could hardly speak.
17%
I have always been scared of you,
17%
I may be a bit of a Jew.
17%
I never could talk to you.
17%
In the German tongue, in the Polish town
17%
In the picture I have of you,
17%
In which I have lived like a foot
17%
I think I may well be a Jew.
17%
I used to pray to recover you.
17%
Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,
17%
My Polack friend
17%
Not God but a swastika
17%
Of wars, wars, wars.
17%
Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You---
17%
Put your foot, your root,
17%
Says there are a dozen or two.
17%
Scraped flat by the roller
17%
So black no sky could squeak through.
17%
So I never could tell where you
17%
The boot in the face, the brute
17%
The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna
17%
The tongue stuck in my jaw.
17%
Where it pours bean green over blue
17%
With my gypsy ancestress and my weird luck
17%
With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.
17%
You died before I had time---
17%
You stand at the blackboard, daddy,
17%
A cleft in your chin instead of your foot
0%
A man with a Meinkampf look
0%
And a love of the rack and the screw.
0%
And drank my blood for a year,
0%
And get back, back, back to you.
0%
And I said I do, I do.
0%
And then I knew what to do.
0%
And the villagers never liked you.
0%
And they stuck me together with glue.
0%
Any less the black man who
0%
At twenty I tried to die
0%
Bit my pretty heart in two.
0%
But no less a devil for that, no not
0%
But they pulled me out of the sack,
0%
Daddy, you can lie back now.
0%
If I've killed one man, I've killed two---
0%
I made a model of you,
0%
In the waters off the beautiful Nauset.
0%
I thought even the bones would do.
0%
It stuck like a barb wire snare.
0%
I was ten when they buried you.
0%
Seven years, if you want to know.
0%
So daddy, I'm finally through.
0%
The black telephone's off at the root,
0%
There's a stake in your fat black heart
0%
The vampire who said he was you
0%
The voices just can't worm through.
0%
They always knew it was you.
0%
They are dancing and stamping on you.
0%
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