The Power and Gender in Sylvia Plath’s Poem “Daddy”: An Analytical Study
Luhaib Hamid Khalaf Salih
University of Tikrit- College of Education for Humanities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.6.4.1.19
Keywords: gender, power, patriarchy, other woman
Abstract
This paper examines the concept of power and gender in the modern poet Sylvia Plath’s Daddy poem. It aims to expose the way that the patriarchy authority practices power among the devalued women. Daddy is one of the prime poems of Sylvia Plath, which tackles the dynamic power between the supremacy of patriarchy depicted by the father and the disregarded daughter. The research is based on afeminism theory with special focus upon the power relation notion by Simon De Bouvier. The research is a qualitative one and follows a textual and critical approach. It is divided into three sections. Introduction, which tackles the introductory of power and gender, followed by literature review, Theoretical framework, which presents the background of the feminism theory and discussion which presents the power relation in this poem, followed bya conclusion.
