<Tab/>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 …showed first 75 words of 1917 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1917 total…death. A child's voice curses and rekills a father and husband suggesting acceptance of herself but only months after writing this poem, she committed suicide by placing her head in an oven in 1963. "Daddy" written by Sylvia Plath in 1962 portrays male domination in Plath's life as well as other females of her period, especially in reference to her father and husband, illustrates social change and events, and hints that she had been thinking of suicide.