A mother of two, a wife to Edward Huges, a woman who went through a miscarriage directly followed by a major surgery and a thirty one year old who committed suicide by gas. This is the life of Sylvia Plath, a very severely depressed but brilliant poet. In 1962, the year before her death, her husb...

Contemporary British and American Poetry Postmodernism is hard to define, because it is a concept that appears in a wide variety of areas of study including art, music, film, literature, communications, fashion and technology. Postmodernism followed modernism, which is the movement in visual arts...

Women's Literary Expression in America Women offer a needed different perspective from men's writing. Women authors offer a voice for women that couldn't be heard for many years. Specific authors like Sylvia Plath and Toni Morrison are more modern authors. Plath was a leader in...

The Life and Influence of Anne Sexton What is Confession? By definition confession is the ritual of discourse in which the speaking subject is also the subject of the statement. Anne Sexton is said by some to be the greatest confessional poet of all time. Her well-documented life helps us to ...