The Life of Sylvia Plath

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In this paper the author looks at the troubled life of Sylvia Plath. He looks at her early years in the bosom of her family to the later years when she traveled with her husband. The author examines the near lack of relationship with her father due to his obsession with bees, which influenced Plath to write some of her most well known works such as "The Beekeepers Daughter" and "Sting". The author traces the life of Plath including her marriage to Ted Hughes the English poet and their turbulent relationship. He then highlights the events that led to her untimely suicide. The author concludes that Plath's emotions impacted her life deeply and through her writings is how she expressed them.

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"In 1936, the Plaths' picked up and moved to the seaside which was known as Winthrop, Massachusetts. While Sylvia Plath was inspired by the ocean to write poetry, her father's health was beginning to fail, which led to his death in 1940 of diabetes. Although Sylvia Plath was devastated by the sudden death of her father, she began writing at such an early age. She composed many different poems in which involved vivid images of her father, visions of bees, and images of the ocean. An example of one of her most popular poems is "Daddy". "Plath's was one of those rare poetic careers--Keats was another--that moved consistently and with gathering rapidity and assurance to an ever greater daring and individuality" (Pollitt 338)."

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