i need two papers of an argumentative essay
1st paper to be a rough draft
2nd paper the final essay
from the poem “Daddy Sylvia Plath”
You do not do, you do not do_x000D_ Any more, black shoe_x000D_ In which I have lived like a foot_x000D_ For thirty years, poor and white,_x000D_ Barely daring to breathe or Achoo._x000D_ _x000D_ Daddy, I have had to kill you._x000D_ You died before I had time—_x000D_ Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,_x000D_ Ghastly statue with one gray toe_x000D_ Big as a Frisco seal_x000D_ _x000D_ And a head in the freakish Atlantic_x000D_ Where it pours bean green over blue_x000D_ In the waters off beautiful Nauset._x000D_ I used to pray to recover you._x000D_ Ach, du._x000D_ _x000D_ In the German tongue, in the Polish town_x000D_ Scraped flat by the roller_x000D_ Of wars, wars, wars._x000D_ But the name of the town is common._x000D_ My Polack friend_x000D_ _x000D_ Says there are a dozen or two._x000D_ So I never could tell where you_x000D_ Put your foot, your root,_x000D_ I never could talk to you._x000D_ The tongue stuck in my jaw._x000D_ _x000D_ It stuck in a barb wire snare._x000D_ Ich, ich, ich, ich,_x000D_ I could hardly speak._x000D_ I thought every German was you._x000D_ And the language obscene_x000D_ _x000D_ An engine, an engine_x000D_ Chuffing me off like a Jew._x000D_ A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen._x000D_ I began to talk like a Jew._x000D_ I think I may well be a Jew._x000D_ _x000D_ The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna_x000D_ Are not very pure or true._x000D_ With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck_x000D_ And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack_x000D_ I may be a bit of a Jew._x000D_ _x000D_ I have always been scared of you,_x000D_ With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo._x000D_ And your neat mustache_x000D_ And your Aryan eye, bright blue._x000D_ Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You—_x000D_ _x000D_ Not God but a swastika_x000D_ So black no sky could squeak through._x000D_ Every woman adores a Fascist,_x000D_ The boot in the face, the brute_x000D_ Brute heart of a brute like you._x000D_ _x000D_ You stand at the blackboard, daddy,_x000D_ In the picture I have of you,_x000D_ A cleft in your chin instead of your foot_x000D_ But no less a devil for that, no not _x000D_ Any less the black man who_x000D_ _x000D_ Bit my pretty red heart in two._x000D_ I was ten when they buried you._x000D_ At twenty I tried to die_x000D_ And get back, back, back to you._x000D_ I thought even the bones would do._x000D_ _x000D_ But they pulled me out of the sack,_x000D_ And they stuck me together with glue._x000D_ And then I knew what to do._x000D_ I made a model of you,_x000D_ A man in black with a Meinkampf look_x000D_ _x000D_ And a love of the rack and the screw._x000D_ And I said I do, I do._x000D_ So daddy, I’m finally through._x000D_ The black telephone’s off at the root,_x000D_ The voices just can’t worm through._x000D_ _x000D_ If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two—_x000D_ The vampire who said he was you_x000D_ And drank my blood for a year,_x000D_ Seven years, if you want to know._x000D_ Daddy, you can lie back now._x000D_ _x000D_ There’s a stake in your fat black heart_x000D_ And the villagers never liked you._x000D_ They are dancing and stamping on you._x000D_ They always knew it was you._x000D_ Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.
12 October 1962
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