"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath

Slyvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath (1906-1994), was the American-born daughter of Austrian immigrants, and her father, Otto Plath (1885-1940), was from Grabow, Germany.
One of Plath's most famous poems, “Daddy” was completed during a brief prolific period of writing before her suicide in February 1963. In images that progress from domestic to demonic, the poem confronts a woman's conflicting feelings about her father's death when she was a child.