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Draft of revision of Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy"
To help improve the wiki page I'm thinking of adding in some biographical context to the poem.

For example Sylvia Plath wrote her poem "Daddy" shortly before her suicide. So "Daddy" could be a further look into Sylvia Plath's mental state leading up tp her. She had divorced her husband and moved to a different location with her children. Her father was dead yet still she felt he had control over her life. Both men are mentioned in the poem. She alludes her ex husband and her father to Nazi German soldiers.

Many readers were also very critical of Plath's allusions to the Holocaust and for comparing the trauma she surpassed with her father as a Jewish person's trauma surpassing the Holocaust.

However, there were some scholars who argued the metaphors that Plath used was legitimately how she felt as the time. Some argue the importance of the words Plath uses and attempts to understand why she uses them in such a manner.

Plath was also know as a confessional poet


 * When did Plath compose it?

October 12th 1962

One month after her divorce

Committed suicide four months after writing the poem


 * Where?

A flat in London after the divorce. She used to live in Devon, England.


 * Under what circumstances?

Freshly divorced, two small children, had attempted suicide previously, mental health deteriorating


 * Where was it first published?

Published two years after her death

In book "Ariel"

1965

alongside many other poems of her leading up to her death