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Sylvia Plath's father died when she was eight, and this experience inspired much of her work.
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Otto Plath died unexpectedly due to complications after the amputation of his foot from untreated diabetes. His death had a significant impact on Plath, and was the inspiration for many of her poems, including one of her most famous: "Daddy."