Daddy can you read me a poem....

I decided to do my second essay on the poem "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath and when I first read the poem I didn't understand much of it. The main thing that popped out to me when I first read the poem is that it had a an angry tone to it and that the main setting of the poem was World War II, which I found odd. After reading the authors biography it was eerie that the poem was very closely related to events in her life, except the part where her dad was a Nazi. I started to understand some of the imagery and metaphors that the author had in her poem but I hadn't really tried looking into the significance behind it. I have to admit, that was the best part of the whole essay was trying to decipher the meaning behind the words and not having any restrictions as to what I thought it could mean. Discussing the meaning of the poem with my teacher taught me that everyone has their own interpretation of what they think that poems mean and that just made the whole process even more interesting. My view about poems changed a lot, in the beginning I didn't appreciate the figurative language used in poems and I am sure the reason is because the poems were always discussed in class, which is a very good thing, but I really didn't have to put much effort in understanding them on my own. This essay really made me enthusiastic about reading poems and trying to figure out all the little details and hidden meanings behind allusions or specific wording. I even learned that the title of a poem is also very important and has a significant meaning that effects the poem. In general, the most important lesson that I think I learned was not to just read a poem but to really read it and appreciate all the time and effort that must have gone into writing it to make it entertaining for the reader. I have to admit that sometimes it does get frustrating having to read a poem that has a lot of descriptive language or that makes a lot of allusions to things that I would have known unless someone told me but I can say  that I do enjoy reading poems a lot more than I used to.