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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; 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.
Jacqueline Shea Murphy wrote the essay " 'This Holocaust I Walk In': Consuming Violence in Sylvia Plath's Poetry", in which she argued that "Daddy" was an example of the fall of violent authoritative control over Plath's body. Murphy further defined that the particular fall was not just in reference to Plath's body but the fall of the violent ...
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American writer and poet Sylvia Plath.Originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963, the novel is supposedly semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed.
In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...
Plath reported that while caring for her two children during the winter of 1962 she wrote “a poem a day before breakfast.” [3] “Elm” was inspired by an enormous wych-elm that shaded the Devon house, “growing on a shoulder of a moated prehistoric mound.” [ 4 ]
“The Disquieting Muses” includes a reference to Plath's childhood in Winthrop, Massachusetts when a category 3 hurricane struck the area in September 1938: “windows bellied in / like bubbles about to break.” Almost six-years-of-age at the time, Plath retained vivid memories of a storm that killed 564 people and injured 1,700.
Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published. It was first released in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. The poems of Ariel, with their free-flowing images and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier Colossus poems.
"Ariel" is composed of ten three-line stanzas with an additional single line at the end, and follows an unusual slanted rhyme scheme. Literary commentator William V. Davis notes a change in tone and break of the slanted rhyme scheme in the sixth stanza which marks a shift in the theme of the poem, from being literally about a horse ride, to more of a metaphoric experience of oneness with the ...