Sylvia Plath's "Daddy"

Sylvia Plath and Her Writing Experiences

During the years of Sylvia Plath’s life she was known as a goddess and a heroine because of her excellent writing. Her writing revolved around aspects of her short life. Plath often wrote about her personal experiences with illness, her parents, and her family. Plath’s father died when she was eight years old of a pulmonary embolus. In the poem “Daddy,” Plath’s only imaginative way of being reunited with her father was to die (Hall 1).
Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. She accepted a scholarship to Smith College in Massachusetts during September of 1950. This was only the beginning of her education. She was later invited to study German at Harvard. After doing this, she went to England for one semester. During her Christmas break she toured London, where she met and married Ted Hughes (Hall 4-5).
In June of 1957, they returned to the United States together. Plath had accepted a position ...