View Art Daddy Sylvia Plath Background. Published posthumously in 1965 as part of the collection ariel, the poem was originally written in october 1962, a month after plath's separation from. The poem is an extraordinary achievement, loaded with anger and brutal language and repetition of emphatic ideas.
Her father destroyed by her fellow, imaginary villagers.
When sylvia plath, at age eight, was told that her father had died, she said, i'll never speak to god again (source). It has elicited a variety of distinct reactions, from feminist praise of its unadulterated rage towards male dominance, to wariness at its usage of holocaust imagery. Plath believed the discrimination of women at the hand of men in the middle of the 20th century was similar to the oppression the jews faced against the nazis. When sylvia plath, at age eight, was told that her father had died, she said, i'll never speak to god again (source).
