Prompt: Whether Daddy is a Feminist Poem

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Prompt 7: Whether Daddy is a Feminist Poem
Sylvia Plath's poem DADDY is a feminist poem based on the inspirations she drew in how her father treated her and how she depicts her relationship with her husband. In the poem, the author describes the feminist views that drove women's liberation and addresses the stereotypical expectations of women. For example, her reference to the Nazi concentration camps is meant to show the oppression of women. Besides, her usage of men's images as authority figures and the accompanying criticisms that women desire influential superior male figures in their life further reflects the feminist ideals.
Plath wrote the poem in 1962, a time when feminist, which began in 1960, was gaining traction. Her father passed away when she was only eight years, and through her biography, he was a strict father. Sylvia married Ted Hughes, another famous English poet, in 1956. However, their marriage lasted only six years, during which they were blessed with two children, Frieda, born in 1960, and Nicholas, born in 1962. Ted abandoned her afterwards, which left her in a deep depression that was also her inspiration in writing the poem. The poem reorganizes the personal family conflicts that occur between parents and their children and between husbands and their wives. It unravels the shameful social relations between the two genders at different levels of social hierarchy.
Assessing the poem through feminist criticism calls for the fundamental questioning about reading, writing, and art teaching. Besides adding women to literature, feminist criticism exposes the incompleteness of what was once perceived as universal and compels people to rethink the entire enterprise. Margaret Homans is one of the notable feminist criticism authors who sought to advance the female poetic author in a previously noted field that belonged to the men. Therefore, Plath's poem was an excellent move by the author to change the narrative that the poetry film was mainly reserved for men. Margaret assesses how being a woman affects women's poetic imagination.
As Margaret Homans suggests, the poem reveals the world in the eyes of feminist writers, who also used their literary works to protest the societal treatment of women. In the Poem, Plath highlights instances where he is heavily rained on but still has to continue being a strong woman. Homan's suggestion, the world of literature is still heavily influenced by the masculinity nature of the societal believes since its inception that there is a more significant power that shapes women in their venture into the film of poetry and other literary forms. In her poem, the author begins by describing her father as being "marble heavy, a bag full of God." She proceeds to state that her father appeared like a scary statute with one swollen grey toe, which has total power over her whole life and calls for her entire dedication. This statement shows that Path's father still had control over her even in death.
Sylvia proceeds to show the power that fathers had over their children in society. She revered her father both in life and death. She uses the imagery of God about how big her father's statute was, at least in her head. In a ...