Life and Work of Sylvia Plath

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This paper looks at the life of Sylvia Plath, who spent her short adult life as a writer and whose works are held up today as classic pieces of poetry and literature and are examined for their undercurrents as well as their meanings. It discusses how since her self induced death there have been many admirers of her work. In particular it looks at two of her poems which are classic examples of the deep and complicated mind that penned her poems, "Mirror" and "In Plaster."

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"Plath was an overachiever her entire life. She skipped grades in school and won honors both academically and socially in her high school ventures. She often felt so torn between the academic and the social obligations that often clashed she became very hard on herself to succeed at both. "In her Letters Home, she wrote, "I think I would like to call myself 'the girl who wanted to be God.' Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be- perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it." Plath obviously had a perfectionist attitude which drove her to succeed at the same time that it insured failure. This created a kind of destructive energy, which presents itself in her later writings.""

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