to yet another "Fascist", the speaker symbolically kills off the men who have held her back: "If I've killed one man, I've killed two/. . . Daddy, you can lie back now./There's a stake in your fat black heart/And the villagers never liked you./They are dancing and stamping on you./They always knew it was you./Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through."In 1965, this was electrifying stuff, a call to feminist arms, and [Sylvia] Plath became a heroine, giving voice to women's frustration--but also to their tenderness, and maternity. If the Ariel poems vibrate with outrage, they also seek an escape hatch, trying to rise above the meanness of rage.
from The Financial Times: Who is Sylvia Plath?
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