Daddy by Sylvia Plath

PLATH #3 Sylvia Plath=s Confessional Poem, ADaddy@ Sylvia Plath reveals herself in her confessional poem ADaddy@. She uses strong imagery and powerful speech to show her attitudes towards her late father, Otto Plath and her husband, Ted Hughes, who also hurt her in the end. Her tone implies a strong hatred and disgust for the relationships with both men. The poem was written in 1963 which happened to be the same year that she committed suicide. …

…to her *Daddy=, Plath addresses issues of abandonment and pain that her father and husband caused her. Stylistic devices play an important role in showing the many complicated aspects of Plath=s attitude towards men. There was never such powerful closure as Plath last line addressed to her father, ADaddy, daddy, you bastard, I=m through.@(80) Sad to note that she was really *through=, she killed herself the same year ending a life of troubles