“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” -Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. In a world where works of art aren’t as appreciated like they used to, Sylvia Plath still stood out in our contemporary society as throughout her life, her poems has aspects of hope in them and during her life, feminism started to burn through the world and important factors played into her style of writing, featuring her father, relationships, and mental health. Imagine the time where poems shined brightly and was still appreciated compared to today’s society. This is where Sylvia Plath comes in, a dynamic woman from the twentieth century who was admired for her underrated work as she wrote confessional poetry, which was personal individual experience on moments of her life. Her work still has meaning and messages in them that lives up to today’s standards (“Sylvia Plath”). Her poems feature a numerous amount of themes like victimization in a male-dominated society, patriarchy which society was characterized by their gender norms, and death, a common …show more content…
When Plath was eight years old, her father died of diabetes, even though, it was a curable disease during the time period they lived in. Otto had been a strict father with his authoritarian attitude, his death and attitude is what changed Sylvia’s poems, notably in her infamous poem, “Daddy”, an elegiac and dark poem written on October 12, 1962, with multiple different metaphors to describe the relationship she had with him (“Sylvia Plath”). Everything about Sylvia Plath screamed potential as when she was young, she was ambitious and driven to succeed and when she was eleven, she had kept a diary throughout her