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Why was Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” remains one of the most controversial modern poems ever written? Explain in details backing up your sourcing from the poem.

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"Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one gray toe Big as a Frisco seal." This means she has already murdered her father—figuratively. A "bag full of God" could mean he's in a body bag or that his body is just a bag. We get an image of how big he is in her eyes via the heavy, cold corpse so large that it spans the US, his toes in the San Francisco Bay.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is a dim, strange, and on occasion agonizing moral story that utilizes analogy and different gadgets to convey the possibility of a female casualty at long last liberating herself from her dad.

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