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Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German language at Boston University and as an entomologist, with a specific expertise on bumblebees. He was the father of American poet Sylvia Plath and Warren Plath, and the husband ...
30 de ago. de 2018 · How did Otto Plath, a German immigrant and academic, influence his daughter Sylvia's life and poetry? Mark Anspach, an anthropologist, explores the role of Otto's death, his sadism, and his example in Sylvia's repeated attempts to end her own life.
"Daddy" employs controversial metaphors of the Holocaust to explore Plath's complex relationship with her father, Otto Plath, who died shortly after her eighth birthday as a result of undiagnosed diabetes. The poem itself is cryptic; its implications and thematic concerns have been analyzed academically, with many differing conclusions.
Explore how Plath's father, a prominent entomologist, influenced her life and work through his absence and presence. Read her poems that express her love, anger, fear, and resentment towards him.
29 de out. de 2018 · Plath was born in Boston in 1932, to Otto Plath, a German immigrant and an authority on bees, and Aurelia Schober, a former teacher twenty-one years his junior.
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Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German language at Boston University and as an entomologist, with a specific expertise on bumblebees.
23 de ago. de 1993 · The Silent Woman. Since her suicide, in 1963, biographers of Sylvia Plath have encountered uncomfortable questions about her identity—and the nature of biography itself. By Janet Malcolm. August...
