... controlling memory of her deceased father. One can see this from the beginning of the poem when Plath writes, " You do not do, you not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot- (lines 1-3). When she identifies herself as a foot, "she suggests that she is trapped- (Uroff). The images themselves are important for what they tell us of "her sense ... and victimizer but more significant the actual image is the swift ease with which she can turn in to various uses- (Uroff). For example, "she starts out imagining herself as a prisoner living like a foot in the black shoe of ...

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