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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 ...
17 de ago. de 2012 · Dalya Alberge. Fri 17 Aug 2012 11.03 EDT. When FBI officers noted the "morbid disposition" of a German-born US suspect called Otto Plath during a first world war investigation, little did they...
30 de ago. de 2018 · A hard-working, studious blacksmith’s son who immigrated to America as a teenager and forged an academic career teaching German and biology, Otto Plath was not a Nazi. But he was an iron-willed domestic tyrant who subjugated Sylvia’s mother – a bright former student twenty-one years his junior – and may well have had a ...
Plath's father, Otto Plath, was a prominent entomologist, and his early death when she was just eight years old cast a long shadow over her life. Through her poetry, Plath sought to reconcile her conflicting emotions towards her father, grappling with his absence, his authoritarian nature, and the impact he had on her own sense of self.
"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.
23 de out. de 2018 · A doctor of biology, Otto Plath misdiagnosed himself with cancer, refused treatment, and died from what turned out to be a treatable form of diabetes which, left untreated, led to his death in 1940 at age 55.
24 de out. de 2023 · Plath protested in her journal that Otto “wouldn’t go to a doctor, wouldn’t believe in God and heiled Hitler in the privacy of his home.” This quote rarely surfaces in discussions of “Daddy”; it appears nowhere in Red Comet.
