Do you think Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" is about Patriarchal oppression?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM

Answer 1

Yes, and it rings true on a personal level for her, as well.

Answer 2

no it is a sign of her mental deterioration from stress, single parenthood, abandonment issues and her anger over lack of career success and opportunity.  She may have had problems with liquor and undiagnosed bipolar disorder.

Answer 3

Plath's poems are complicated. She is an amazing postmodernist writer. Her poetry is beyond the personal familiar but not quiete political. The family is complicated and the relationship between a father and a daughter can never be easily explained. I am lucky to have a father who stuck around.

Answer 4

It could be; that poem isn't exactly straightforward. That's the conclusion we drew in my English class.