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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.
The grave of poet Sylvia Plath in Heptonstall. After living a life of manic depression and attempting suicide multiple times, Plath committed suicide on 11 February 1963 in her London flat. At around 4:00 am, [8] Plath placed her head in an oven and gassed herself, dying of carbon monoxide poisoning. The surrounding doorways had been sealed by ...
Sylvia Plath's poem "Daddy" had very dark tones and imagery including death and suicide, in addition to the Holocaust. Plath wrote about her father's death that occurred when she was eight years old and of her ongoing battle trying to free herself from her father. Plath's father, Otto Plath, had died from complications after his leg amputation.
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 ...
"Lady Lazarus" and Sylvia Plath's poetry catalog falls under the literary genre of Confessional poetry.. According to the American poet and critic, Macha Rosenthal, Plath's poetry is confessional due to the way that she uses psychological shame and vulnerability, centers herself as the speaker, and represents the civilization she is living in. [1] Her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, has ...
Butler’s experience recalls that of Ted Hughes in the wake of Sylvia Plath’s death. But unlike Hughes, who destroyed Plath’s last journals and set down the iron curtain on her last days, ...
He also wrote both poetry and prose for children, one of his most successful books being The Iron Man, written to comfort his children after their mother Sylvia Plath's suicide. It later became the basis of Pete Townshend 's 1989 rock opera of the same name, and of the 1999 animated film The Iron Giant , the latter of which is dedicated to his ...
Ethan Plath and Olivia Plath have split after five years of marriage. “Ethan and I have decided to go our separate ways,” Olivia, 25, wrote in an Instagram statement on Friday, October 27.