Sylvia Plath, an acclaimed 20th century American poet whose writings were mostly influenced by her life experiences. His father died shortly after his eighth birthday, and his first documented suicide attempt occurred when he was in his early twenties. She married at the age of twenty-three and when she discovered that her husband was having an affair she left him with their two children. Her depression and the abandonment she felt as a child and as a woman is what inspires most of her work. Daddy is a pivotal moment in which Plath decides to move on from her father's death by telling him that she will no longer allow his memory to control her. Plath never got over the loss of her father and her failed marriage to the well-known poet Ted Hughes. She wrote: "I, I have never known the love of a father, the love of a man stable and related by blood after the age of eight.... I hated men because they didn't stay here and they didn't love me like a father" (quoted in Hughes & McCullough, 1982, pp. 266267). In an article, Jon Rosenblatt describes his poetry by saying, "Whether the poems take place inside a house or in the countryside, the same metaphorical relationships are established between a vulnerable speaker and a destructive environment." At the end of “Daddy” the speaker presents himself as a force to be reckoned with and his message is definitive. Plath wrote to Dad on October 12, 1962 and if you know Plath's life you can almost imagine her sitting there one night deep in thought and finally coming to terms with her past and saying "Enough is enough, I will live and not let the past define the my future!" He takes out a sheet of patterned paper and starts writing to Dad. In an article written by Heather Cam, she says: “Daddy is a brilliant act of Plath's exorcism'... middle of paper... senblatt, Jon Twentieth Century Literature; Primavera79, vol. 25 Issue 1, p21, 16p Academic Research Complete Ebesco. Network. 25 July 2011The diaries of Sylvia Plath. Ed. Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough. New York: Ballantine, 1982. Cam, Heather American Literature; Oct87, vol. 59 Issue 3, p429, 4p Academic Research Complete Ebesco. Network. July 25, 2011Zivley, Sherry Lutz ANQ; Oct91, vol. 4 Issue 4, p194, 2/3p Academic Research Complete Ebesco. Network. July 25, 2011Lowe, Peter J. Texas Studies in Literature and Language; Spring 2007, vol. 49 Issue 1, p21-44, 24p Academic Research Complete Ebesco. Network. July 23, 2011 Gordon, John ANQ; Summer 2003, vol. 16 Issue 3, p49-51, 3p Academic Research Complete Ebesco. Network. 26 July 2011The complete diaries of Sylvia Plath: 1950-1962. 430 ed. Karen V. Kukil. Transcribed from the original manuscripts at Smith College. New York: Again, 2000.