Sylvia Plath

To Forgive and to Forget, or not to Forgive and Forget, That is the Question. While reading Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” the speaker, possibly Plath as a child and later, an adult, tries to distance herself from her dead father to be able to move on with her life. The uses of The Holocaust imagery seem to help the speaker imaging her father as an evil man, which could possibly help her deal with …

…role in the speaker’s life. She can now move on with her life, but the death of her father at such a young age will always haunt her. Some readers may see Plath’s poem as a bit on the autobiographical side due to the death of her father at the age of 8. But, for many people, writing is a way to express one’s self. Maybe in this case, this was Sylvia’s.