Many people view poems and other writings in different ways, there is no right or wrong way to interpret someone's work, it's simply your point of view; your opinions. In the poem “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath, many might say that it was about a difficult relationship she had with her father, but how do we know? It could be her father, her husband, a strong authority figure, or even God. But reading “Daddy,” I got the strong impression that it was primarily about his father. The poem suggests that she either had an unhealthy relationship with him or was angry with him for leaving her. In the poem, Plath says, “I was always afraid of you” (41); I consider this as she may not have had the best relationship with him. Maybe he was violent or mean. Maybe he was cold-hearted. But the truth is, for some reason, she was upset about her father's death. She writes earlier in the poem how she tried to reach him. She wanted to kill herself so she could be with him in heaven. At the beginning of her poem, she uses the word “black” which I feel to express her emotions. Black symbolizes death and darkness and that's exactly how she felt. She prayed for him to come back but he didn't, so she got angry with him for that. In many areas of the poem she uses very dark phrasing and very strong language. In many cases, we cannot fully understand the meaning of her sentences based solely on the fact that she wrote this poem in the 1960s. It is quite a difficult poem, but nevertheless brilliant. The poem was uniquely written, with each stanza oozing tons of information and emotion. I think this poem was written so powerfully because she felt so strongly for her father. She hated the fact that he left her, she missed him. So instead of sitting... in the middle of a newspaper... I read his life, I can see that it was more than that. It was about how she felt and how she wanted to express her feelings. She went through a great depression after her father's death and this poem shows it. She tried to kill herself to get to him. Even though Sylvia Plath obviously had issues with depression and was quite emotionally unstable, I believe this was a brilliant poem in which she was able to express herself. Works CitedReuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Sylvia Plath". PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/plath.html.Plath, Sylvia. “Daddy” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 11th. Ed. New York: Longman, 2010, 1074-1075. Print.