To get started, read about Sylvia Plath's writing style here: Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy" is arguably one of the most polarizing, intense, and heavily studied poems of the 20th century. Written in October 1962—just a few months before her death—and published posthumously in the 1965 collection Ariel, the poem is a blistering masterpiece of Confessional poetry.... Continue Reading →