When Sylvia Plath was told that her father had died at the tender age of nine, she said bitterly, "I will never speak to God again." In her brief but indispensable career as a writer, Plath has distinguished herself in the poetic realm with her body of work that includes but is not limited to poems, short stories, and a semi-autobiographical novel. His legacy lives on through his dark themes laden with powerful imagery such as the moon and skulls, while a father-type figure acts as a significant force as both a central antagonistic power and an influential shadow looming in the background. Dark thoughts and despondent emotions overwhelm the reader when faced with one of Plath's numerous works such as "Daddy", "The Colossus" and "Lady Lazarus". At times easy to understand, Plath's works contain unique and intermittently placed diction choices such as "mule bray, pig grunt" throughout her works. On February 11, 1963, Plath was found with her head placed in the kitchen oven (death from carbon monoxide), yet she continues to resonate with people to this day; is it because we are able to relate to his melancholy and anguish? Or because of our sickening interest in his suicide and the events leading up to it? Maybe it's both. Due to the death of her father at a young age, Sylvia Plath's poems highlight a theme regarding her suicidal death and victimization at the hands of a patriarchal society, particularly by her husband, Ted Hughes, and her late father, Otto Plath. traumatic event for young Sylvia and which led to some of her subsequent emotional problems, consequently affecting her for the rest of her life. At the beginning of Plath's poem, "The Colossus," the speaker struggles to repair the listener who has taken on… middle of paper… a wave of poetry with a male character acting as an opposing force. . His work is filled with content that alludes to his mental instability, longing for his deceased father, and his desire to end his life. You can understand that Plath had some sort of complex Elektra obsession with her father. In his personal life, this caused several suicide attempts (one every decade of his life) and his search for another male to fill the role of his missing father. It was only when she met the poet Ted Hughes that Plath thought she had met her soulmate; It was also because of this fiery relationship that Plath tragically ended her life when she ended her seven-year marriage to Hughes after discovering his illicit affair. Finally, in her desperate and anguished state, Plath ended her life; she couldn't face her inner demons and no one could truly offer her the support she was looking for.