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“Sylvia Plath’s Unfinished Mourning: A Study of “Daddy” and Other Poems.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 36.4(2010): 93-109. Sylvia Plath’s poetry, says Ted Hughes, “tells just one story: her Oedipal love for her father, her complex relationship with her mother, the attempt at suicide, the shock therapy.” Whether one agrees with Hughes or not, it seems fairly certain that Plath never got over her father’s death and was never able to complete mourning. In consequence, she had to live with the ghost of her father. She even confessed: "I felt “temptation to dig him up. To prove he existed and really was dead.” This paper scrutinizes Plath’s “Daddy” and some confessional poems and tries to illuminate that unfinished mourning is at the bottom of all her work. (Chonbuk National University)