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Plath's Daddy
Title: Plath's Daddy
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 484 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Plath's Daddy
Christen Goodin Goodin 1
Corby
EN 1103-33
26 April, 2001
Examining Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”
In Sylvia Plath’s short but tumultuous lifetime, she endured many heartaches and difficulties, which she expresses in her poem “Daddy”. In this poem, she “expresses the kind of anger that most women suppress” (17). Plath’s failed marriage to British poet Ted Hughes caused her to have a negative view of men in her life, and she applies this view to her father in “…showed first 75 words of 484 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 484 total…her, and Plath eventually committed suicide in 1963, which she alludes to in the last line of the poem, ”Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through”. Although this poem “embodies some of the more negative features of feminist attitudes” (17), “Daddy” sheds light on Plath’s life and beautifully displays the troubled world she lived in.
Works Cited
Gilmore, Jennifer. “Book Review: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath.” Biography November 2000: 52-53.
Plath, Sylvia. “Daddy.” The Mercury Reader, 2000 edition.
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