... that type of diabetes could have been treatable with proper doses of insulin. Otto Plath's death had a major influence on Sylvia's life and the way she lived it, as shown in the poem "Daddy". Sylvia Plath's at the age of 8, experienced the lost of her father. This obviously means she doesn't know much him, whom ... about other than what was told her by her family, never knowing for herself. The first stanza in this poem seems to be Plath striping down the disguises her family has put over her father. The black shoe could be a cover as the family might have been always telling Sylvia how g...

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• Grade Level: High School