Week 2 Question 1

This poem is considered confessional because the author Sylvia Plath reveals her early years of world war two and the dead of her father. Her father was a Nazi and her mother, very possibly, Jewish. Although in this poem there are some autobiographical references, that speaks is not Sylvia, but a personage. She did not have ten years when her father died, but eight. Otto Plath, died before World War II and he never participated in the Nazi movement. Plath’s father marked her life. She is constantly blaming her father and how he wasn’t there to help me so she felt lonely and neglect to do things by herself. It is a deep poem that needs a lot of reading in order to understand it.