Sylvia Plath

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The paper discusses the life and works of Sylvia Plath who suffered from clinical depression. The paper relates how she used writing as a way to release her depressed feelings, but it was not enough to prevent her from committing suicide in 1963 at the young age of 30. The paper shows how depression ended the career of a great writer and a wonderful woman. The paper also looks at her many published works.

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"Sylvia Plath proved to be an exceptional writer at a very young age. She was only eight years old when she published her first poem. This poem was published the same year that her father had died of an embolism due to complications from surgery because of undiagnosed diabetes. It is strongly believed that Sylvia never fully recovered from the death of her father in 1940 and that this event marked the beginning of many years of clinical depression. However, although she suffered from clinical depression for most of her life, Sylvia Plath is known as one of the greatest poets of her generation."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hayman, Ronald. The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. London, Mebourne, Auckland, and Heinemann, 1991.
• Wagner-Martin, Linda. Sylvia Plath: A Literary Life. London:Palgrave Macmillan, 1999.
• The Sylvia Plath Homepage. July 13, 2006 www.sylviaplath.de
• Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Frame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Mariner Books, 1995.
• Malcolm, Janet. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Vintage, Reprint Edition, 1995.

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