Sylvia’s Battle for Self Sylvia Plath applies the poem “Daddy” as a means to voice her inner conflict about her true identity. Her father becomes the vehicle for her struggle, because he represents a connection to the love and admiration she felt as a child; he is an anchor to a part of herself, to which she is deeply connected. It is almost as if she becomes her father in this poem talking about …showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total…an aspect within the author, which has held her hostage. Work Cited Guinevara, A. Nance; Judith, P. Jones.”On’Daddy’.” Modern American Poetry, found in Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initian, University of North Carolina Press, 1979, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/plath/daddy.htn. Rose, Jacqueline. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath. 1991. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. Rosenblatt, Jon. Sylvia Plath: The Poetry of Initiation. 1947. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. .