Sylvia Plath
I chose Sylvia Plath as my poet for this project. She was born
to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts
and she wrote her first poem when she was eight. She was what you would call
the perfect daughter. She was popular smart and she won various scholastic
prizes. Her perfection was just a false image because deep down inside side had
many problems that she kept bottled up. Sylvia lost her father when she was
very young, this was just the begging of her hard life. When she was
the guest writer for Mademoiselle magazine she committed her
first suicide attempt by swallowing over a dozen sleeping pills.
She later was treated with shock therapy and
graduated from the college of Cambridge. While in England she
married with Ted Hughes. She was a very outspoken person with a smile for
everyone. At the age of thirty years old her final suicide attempt killed her. Her
hard life full of suffering and loss was probably what inspired her to write.
This is explains why most of her writing has a gloomy and dark feeling to it.
Some call her the modern poet of emotion. I feel that her pieces all have
something to say to everyone because many of her poems are at a very
personal level. Like in her poem "I want, I want," she is telling the story
from the mothers point of view. The quote, "The dry volcanoes cracked and
spit," is relevant to many grown women because this quote is telling of what
happens when a baby is born. The volcano symbolizes her breast and the
cracking and spitting of the volcano is supposed to be the milk emerging for the
first time. This can be very emotional for new mothers because is it so symbolic
and pure. That is just one of the many levels that she can reach out and touch
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