“There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.”

—  Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Daddy"
Ariel (1965)

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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