Essay On Sylvia Plath

It tends to be the trend for women who have had traumatic childhoods to be attracted to men who epitomize their emptiness felt as children. Women who have had unaffectionate or absent fathers, adulterous husbands or boyfriends, or relatives who molested them seem to become involved in relationships with men who, instead of being the opposite of the “monsters” in their lives, are the exact replicas of these ugly men. Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy” is a perfect example of this unfortunate trend. In this poem, she speaks directly to her dead father and her husband who has been cheating on her, as the poem so indicates.

Sylvia Plath was a troubled writer to say the least, not only did she endure the loss of her father a young age but she later on “attempted suicide at her home and was hospitalized, where she underwent psychiatric treatment” for her depression (Dunn). Writing primarily as a poet, she only ever wrote a single novel, The Bell Jar. This fictional autobiography “[chronicles] the circumstances of her mental collapse and subsequent suicide attempt” but from the viewpoint of the fictional protagonist, Esther Greenwood, who suffers the same loss and challenges as Plath (Allen 890). Due to the novel’s strong resemblance to Plath’s own history it was published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas”. In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath expresses the

In her poem, “Lady Lazarus,” Sylvia Plath uses dark imagery, disturbing diction, and allusions to shameful historical happenings to create a unique and morbid tone that reflects the necessity of life and death. Although the imagery and diction and allusions are all dark and dreary, it seems that the speaker’s attitude towards death is positive. The speaker longs for death, and despises the fact the she is continually raised up out of it.

Sylvia Plath was the first person to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1982,and she is well known for her poems “daddy”. Sadly Plath committed suicide,but before she killed herself she left a note for one of her neighbors to tell them to get a doctor and when they found her she was lying in the oven with wet towels covering the door so her children wouldn't die from the gas to. Plath’s husband Hughes published most of her poems or novels that weren’t published because she had committed suicide at such an early age. It’s because of Hughes publishing her works that she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 but she was too late for her to claim it because she was dead 20 something years or so. Plath achieved this from studying with the one and only Robert Lowwell which she made her famous Colossus

Sylvia Plath’s confessional poem, “Lady Lazarus”, is generous with a sympathetic insight into the many lives and emotional suffering of Sylvia Plath herself. Admittedly, she attempted to take her own life multiple times; unsuccessful at each attempt, until she ran out of lives at her final effort in which she then died in 1963. Due to her life experiences, Plath is well known for depressing themes such as death, emotional pain, darkness and using the suffering of others to explain what she is going through. Plath makes biblical and historical references in an attempt to evoke a relationship between her situation and those specific events. The poem is introduced with the use of holocaust imagery; the same historical event used as an extended

Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27,1932, to Aurelia and Otto Plath. Mr. and Mrs. Plath were both from Germanic backgrounds. Mr. Plath was a professor of biology and German at Boston University who liked discipline and order in his home. According to Mrs. Plath, the day

Sylvia Plath’s rather depressing story begins in Boston, Massachusetts October 27, 1932, the day Aurelia Plath gave birth to her. In the span of Plath's life she constantly suffers from depression which eventually leads to her brutal suicide on February 11, 1963. Sylvia began writing poetry a young age and continued to write throughout her life, earning herself many awards, even some after her death (Bio.com). During the time in which Plath was working for Mademoiselle magazine, in 1953, she tried to kill herself for the first time. Plath recovered shortly from the traumatic incident over her first suicide attempt while receiving treatment from a mental health facility. Soon after, Sylvia started studying at Cambridge University, where she

Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are two very alike women. Both were born in Massachusetts, both wrote poetry, and both committed suicide. A common factor that particularly stands out in these two women is that they both suffered some form of mental problem, but they used that to transfer it onto their writing. It was because of their depression that they were able to be so successful in their writing careers. But even after having poems and books published, that wasn’t enough to satisfy their happiness. In the end, they searched for a way out, a way to end their mental suffering. To understand their poetry, we must first understand a little bit about their depression and the lives they lived.

There are ultimately two ends to depression, getting better or ending it all. Sylvia Plath chose the latter, and end her life of February 11, 1963. She was born October 27, 1932, and is the daughter of Aurelia Schober and Otto Plath. Her father taught German and died when she was ten, both of these have an influence on her poetry, as seen in the poem “Daddy.” Plath published her first poem shortly after graduating from high school in 1950. In 1953 she hit a deep depression, along with her first suicide attempt. Plath’s struggle with depression is reflected upon in her poetry, this includes her poems “Daddy” and “Elms.”

Sylvia Plath was born October 27, 1932 in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. She was born to Aurelia and Otto Plath. She had one brother named Warren. From the time Sylvia was young, she was destined for writing. She started a journal at an early age. She had one brother, Warren Plath. When Sylvia turned eight, her father

Sylvia Plath was a good woman and very gorgeous, one day who fell into a trench of depression, but continues living her life with feelings of depression. In many ways, she was like a grateful, dead flower in the garden. Solitary and pessimistic, she was full of bad intentions where she had attempted suicide many times. She had exemplified herself as a slow horse’s movement, and her writing was full of darkness and gloom due to rational isolation and threatening death. She believed in betrayal, in disappointing everyone around her, in hard work, and in the features of simplicity and multifaceted imageries. Like a death flower, Ms. Plath was also worried about her desolation. At the same time, she was very passionate for death.

Sylvia is best known for The Colossus, Ariel, and possibly her most controversial writing The Bell Jar (Learner1&2). Sylvia was the first poet to be posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems (Archive1). I want to believe that if Plath received this award when she was alive, it would have dampened her depression and make her rethink suicide. Sylvia Plath had a major part in the battle for feminism because she had such a difficult time conforming to the wife and mother roles in her life (Learner1). I think that Sylvia did not want to be a part of the feminist movement, but instead she was just handling her problems the only way she knew, through writing about them. Numerous people speculate what sent Sylvia over the edge. Some possibilities are the feminist movement using her as an icon, Hughes’ infidelity, or her father dying when she was at such a young age (Archive1). I think that Plath’s suicide had something to do with her being the jump starter for a movement and also not being able to please or satisfy her husband, which in her era was one of the most important roles in women’s

Sylvia’s Plath’s “Metaphors” is about a woman feeling insignificant during the midst of her pregnancy. Striking imagery is used to explore the narrator’s attitudes about having a child. Plath uses metaphors in every line, including the title itself, making the poem a collection of clues. The reader is teasingly challenged to figure out these clues, realising that the metaphors have

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts to Otto and Aureila Plath. Otto Plath was a well-respected professor at Boston University, but when Sylvia was just eight years old her father died due to his untreated diabetes. Although she

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 of two parents in a middleclass household in Boston. At a very young age, she demonstrated great literary talent and a hardworking attitude, publishing her first poem at the age of eight and maintaining a straight A record throughout all of her studies. A few days after she turned eight, her father deceased of diabetes. This event in her life is what most