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A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's "Daddy," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Sylvia Plath's "Daddy" - Gale
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Daddy
Sylvia Plath
1965
Introduction
Sylvia Plath's poem Daddy
appeared in her collection Ariel, which was published in 1965. Yet, the poems in the collection were written mere months before Plath's death in February 1963. These poems are some of the best examples of confessional poetry, or poetry that is extremely personal and autobiographical in nature. Indeed, in the 1970s, the publication of Plath's autobiographical novel The Bell Jar under her own name—it was published in England in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas— amplified the context for Daddy
and set the poem firmly inside Plath's life story. That poem and the book taken together made Plath an emblem of the conflicted intellectual woman simultaneously starved for and revolted by male affection. In the 1970s Daddy
was celebrated perhaps more as a confessional anthem of female oppression, subversion, and resistance in a world dominated by male power and the power of male definition than it was celebrated as a poem.
General critical opinion indicates that the poems in Ariel, not just Daddy,
reveal a mastery of the craft that was often suggested but not fully realized in Plath's earlier poems. Ariel set Plath among the first-ranking American poets of the second half of the twentieth century. After her death, her novel, her journals, and some children's stories she wrote were published. In 2004, the version of Ariel as Plath had intended it, edited by her daughter, Frieda Hughes, was released by HarperCollins. In the first version, her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, had dropped several poems, and rearranged the order in which they appeared.
Author Biography
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. Her German-born father, Otto Plath, was professor of zoology and German at Boston University and was also an expert on bees. Her Austrian-born mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, was twenty years her husband's junior. In 1934, she gave birth to Plath's brother, Warren. Six years later, just after Plath's eighth birthday, her father died of complications from a case of diabetes he had neglected to treat. Later that same year, Plath
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