week 2 Question 2

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. Plath was a follower of Anne Sexton. Sexton is one of the main confessional poets and her work had some influence in the life of Sylvia Plath. Although during long time it was considered that her repeated depressions and attempts of suicide had to the death of her father. It was a loss that she never managed to surpass. Today is known with certainty that Plath suffered bipolar disorder so this is one of the clues that help us to analyze her poem daddy.