Question

Would you consider Sylvia Plath's Daddy to be an expression against the voice of patriarchy? Comment critically? ​

Answer 1

The poem ‘Daddy’ is an attack on the poet’s dead father. The poet had a secret admiration for her father, yet loathed him for being a Nazi.

‘Daddy’ was written by American poet Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963). It is about her father, Otto Emil Plath, a German-American writer, professor (of biology and German) and entomologist, with whom she had a very complex relationship.