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Perhaps one of the youngest poets, Sylvia Plath has shown us that it is not the duration of life that makes the quality of life, but the content of that life which makes it memorable or forgotten. Although she only lived to be thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become one of the top 100 poets of our time with more than 400 poems. Her marriage to Ted Hughes (though only for a brief time) has helped in her placement among those writers which will be remembered. Tragically, the poet did not see the value in her work or life. One has to consider the impact which she would have had on the world today had she not committed suicide.

Blackened Works

Though love poems are a great part of Sylvia Plath’s poems when looking at her work from a collective vantage point, upon individual examination, one will see that there is a very definitive melancholy which comes forth as the dominant drive in her work. In her poem Daddy, reference is given to one of her suicide attempts and her disappointment in being saved from such an attempt.

This darkness seems to linger further in other poem

Sylvia Plath

American poet and writer (1932–1963)

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Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honor posthumously.[1]

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Plath graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts and the University of Cambridge, England, where she was a student at Newnham College. Plath later studied with Robert Lowell at Boston University, alongside poets Anne Sexton and George Starbuck. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. Their relationship was

Biography of Sylvia Plath, American Poet and Writer

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories. Her most notable achievements came in the genre of confessional poetry, which often reflected her intense emotions and her battle with depression. Although her career and life were complicated, she won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize and remains a popular and widely studied poet.

Fast Facts: Sylvia Plath

  • Known For: American poet and author
  • Born: October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Parents: Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober Plath
  • Died: February 11, 1963 in London, England
  • Spouse: Ted Hughes (m, 1956)
  • Children: Frieda and Nicholas Hughes
  • Education: Smith College and Cambridge University
  • Selected Works:The Colossus (1960), The Bell Jar (1963), Ariel (1965), Winter Trees (1971), Crossing the Water (1971)
  • Awards: Fulbright Scholarship (1955), Glascock Prize (1955), Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982)
  • Notable Quote: “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the peop

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