Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was born on 27, 1932,
in Boston, Massachusetts. Plath belongs to the 20th century of
poetry known as confessional poetry. She was known as a poet and a novelist.
Her interest of writing started at an early age. She won a scholarship to Smith
College in 1950 because of publishing large number of her works. Sylvia Plath
at the end committed suicide after two previous attempts. At the third attempt
she succeeded in killing herself. At the first two attempts she really did not
want to die. She wanted also to live.
In the poem “Lady Lazarus” she
mentioned “I have done it again” which means her previous attempts to die. She
was caught between her attractions to life as well as to death.
Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes who
was also a poet in 1956. It was a stormy relationship. In 1960, Plath published
her first collection of poetry, “The Colossus” at England. And in the same year
she gave a birth to their first child, a daughter and after two years later she
had a son as the second child. But she was unfortunate to failing her marriage
apart.
After Ted Hughes left her for
another woman, she was in a deep depression. Struggling with her mental
illnesses she wrote “The Bell Jar”, her only novel. It is based on her life and deals with one
young woman’s mental disorder. Plath was the first person to win a posthumous
Pulitzer prize in 1982.
On February 11, 1963 Sylvia Plath
died by committing suicide.
