nd Carolyn Kizer.
             Sylvia Plath is a confessional writer that used her feelings to write. Sylvia's writing was greatly affected by her life. At the age of eight her father died due to diabetic complications. She felt deliberately betrayed by her father's death and soon after began writing, using poetry as a fantasy escape and a defense. Another factor affecting Plath and her work was her friendship with Anne Sexton, another confessional poet. Both Plath and Sexton attended Robert Lowell's poetry class. Sylvia committed suicide when she was thirty-one during the same week that her first book of poetry was published. In her poem "Stillborn" Plath takes a cold scientific view of the loss of a child.
             These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
             They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
             Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
             If they missed out on walking about like people
             It wasn't for any lack of mother – love.
             Plath makes a connection of having children to wri
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