A single poem called "Daddy", written by Sylvia Plath just months before she took her own life illustrates several facts of her life. On an obvious level, the poem represents Plath's struggle within her own life to overcome male domination and beocme an independent individual free from her tormented past so dependant and fearful of men. This represents most women in her era. She first reflects on her relationship and perception of her father and later, her husband's influence on her life. The poem also addresses political circumstances before and during her life, using imagery of the Holocaust to express her own inner turmoil. "Daddy" also indicated Sylvia Plath's diminishing spirit and hints at her future suicide. Sylvia Plath's confessional poem "Daddy" sheds light on the suppression of women's indivuality in her era, her transformation to an unconstrained indentity free of her father's and husband's influence and through...