Biographical Interpretation Essay - 911 Words

Many people view poems and other pieces of writing in different ways, there is no wrong or right way to interpret a work of someone, it merely your point of view; your opinions. In Sylvia Plath’s poem â€Å"Daddy†, many could say that it was a about a hard relationship she had with her father, but how do we know? It could be about her father, husband, strong authority figure, or even God. But, as I read â€Å"Daddy† I got the strong sense that it was mostly about her father. The poem suggests that she had either an unhealthy relationship with him or she was angry with him for leaving her. In the poem, Plath says â€Å"I have always been scared of you† (41); I view this as she may not have had the best relationship with him. Maybe he was abusive or mean.†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Daddy† is a poem where Plath expressed her most personal feelings about her father and ultimately her husband also. In the poem, when Plath writes â€Å"And then I knew what to do. / I made a model of you, / A man in black with a Meinkampf look.† (63-65). It suggests that she possibly actually went to her father’s grave and maybe she tried to dig up her father’s bones to prove to her that he was really dead. Or, possibly these lines mean that she married someone who was a lot like him. She married someone who she could look at every day and who reminds her of her father. But, if this poem is about her sad relationship with him, why would she want to be reminded of him every day? This only makes me come to the conclusion that she did not have a horrible relationship with him, she was just angry with him for leaving her, for dying. As you can tell there can be many different interpretations for Sylvia Plath’s poem â€Å"Daddy†. I believe that this poem is about Sylvia, who is angry with her father for dying and leaving her behind, who wants to express her feelings towards this in a poem. 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