Aurelia Plath

Sylvia Plath the famous American writer from Boston, Massachusetts accomplished many great poems and short stories in her short life. One of the greatest quotes and a personal favorite is“If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.” By this quote she helped people rely more on themselves than on others. Even though Plath life was tragically cut short due to suicide, she made great accomplishments in todays life and her work is still used in everyday life. In many classrooms throughout

Sylvia Plath, a renowned poet, was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father, Otto Plath was born in Germany and was a professor of biology at Boston University. Plath’s mother, a student of Otto Plath, was named Aurelia Schober Plath (Two Views on Plath’s Life and Career). Her father died on November 5, 1940 due to untreated diabetes and infection when Plath was eight years old. This experience “haunt[ed] her for life and [lead] her to create most of her poetry.” Plath was brought

and I didn 't know what I was doing in New York" (1; ch. 1), the opening line of The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, effectively sets the tone for both the life of Plath and the remainder of the novel. Plath 's depression and cynical outlook on life fueled the creation of many of her poems and novels, and particularly The Bell Jar in its autobiographical fictional genre. In this way, Sylvia Plath is able to more clearly display the disillusionment of the Modernist era in The Bell Jar as she showcases

leaves the speaker with unresolved feelings towards him that are later converted to her surrogate father, her husband, until she finds the courage to free herself from his control. Throughout the poem, Plath reveals several representations that were relevant to her own life that suggest her and

American poet Sylvia Plath once said “eternity bores me, I never wanted it.” This quote, from her poem, “Years,” expresses that she did not want to live forever. It might even suggest a foreshadowing of her suicide in 1963. This quote is also from one of her many poems, which are greatly influenced by her life. To learn how Plath’s life affected her writing, researchers study main topics on her life and her works, including her early life, career, and literary works. EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY HISTORY

Audra Etcheson 3.27.15 ELA 3 Sylvia Plath To become a successful writer, you have to have a lot of knowledge of the English writing. Usually, it takes a lot of time to work on and become a famous American literature writer, but not for Sylvia Plath. By the time that Plath took her life, she already had a following in the literary community. Many of the readers that she attracted were because of her attempt to list despair, violent emotion, and her obsession with death. Plath’s poems explore her mental

Not How You Bake a Cake, Sylvia Sylvia Plath was an American Poet known for her confessional style with brilliant wordplay. She had an interesting life filled with love and losses. Sylvia Plath was and is still a major source of controversy. Sylvia had a troublesome childhood plagued with death and depression. She was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts (Biography1). Her parents were Otto Emil, a German professor and entomologist, and Aurelia Schober, a teacher (Poetry29). Sylvia had

Examining the Life of Sylvia Plath as Seen Within “Lady Lazarus” Sylvia Plath’s poem, “Lady Lazarus”, was greatly about the author’s life: the influence by her suicide attempts, years of troubled mental health, and stressed relationships with her father and husband. The opening lines of “Lady Lazarus” read “I have done it again. / One year in every ten” (Plath 1-2). These two lines immediately reference Plath’s suicide attempts, her first of three being in 1953 when she was just a university student

The Causes of Sylvia Plath’s Depression When reading any works by Sylvia Plath, it is easy to focus on the depression of her writing. However, it is important to understand why she wrote most her works about depression. Plath based her works on her own life experiences. Sylvia Plath’s most commonly known book, The Bell Jar, is thought to be an autobiography. Aurelia Plath, Sylvia’s mother, published the book Letters Home, a collection of all the letters Sylvia wrote to her mother. The letters she

Sylvia Plath once said “Let me live, love, and say it in good sentences.” Plath fulfilled this quote because she did write many “good sentences”, seen in her beautiful poetry and novels. Plath is a very distinguished and well known writer because of those good sentences. And her life was indeed filled with love, but also filled with tragedy and depression. Although Plath lived a short life, she wrote prolifically and used the tragedy in her life as inspiration. In fact, Sylvia Plath’s depression