Bitter strawberries sylvia plath
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Perhaps one of the youngest poets, Sylvia Plath has shown us that it is not the duration of life that makes the quality of life, but the content of that life which makes it memorable or forgotten. Although she only lived to be thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become one of the top 100 poets of our time with more than 400 poems. Her marriage to Ted Hughes (though only for a brief time) has helped in her placement among those writers which will be remembered. Tragically, the poet did not see the value in her work or life. One has to consider the impact which she would have had on the world today had she not committed suicide.
Blackened Works
Though love poems are a great part of Sylvia Plath’s poems when looking at her work from a collective vantage point, upon individual examination, one will see that there is a very definitive melancholy which comes forth as the dominant drive in her work. In her poem Daddy, reference is given to one of her suicide attempts and her disappointment in being saved from such an attempt.
This darkness seems to linger further in other poem
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Sylvia Plath was ecstatic when Poetry accepted six of her recent poems in October 1956. She wrote to Ted Hughes, "POETRY has accepted SIX of my poems!!!!!!!!!! Like we dreamed of. Didn't I say the Fulbright would start the trigger?" (Letters, Vol I, p 1292). It was the largest batch of her poems, to date, that were accepted; they appeared in the January 1957 issue. Another four poems followed in July 1957.
Plath's dream of being in The New Yorkeris well known; her first acceptance was in June 1958 when the magazine took "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor" and "Nocturne" (published as "Night Walk" and then "Hardcastle Crags".)The magazine regularly accepted her work after she broke through. But they did not publish them all in a necessarily timely fashion. In her life, she saw nine of her poems in their "queer wobbly" font. After her death, they printed seven poems in their 3 August 1963 issue.
Hughes published "Gigolo" in 1970, and then, in time for his volumes of her poems in 1971/1972 (Crossing the Water and Winter Trees), he placed six poems (which the magazine had mor
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Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963)
Sylvia Plath demonstrated a talent for words when she began speaking at a much earlier age than most children and was writing complete poems by the age of five. Her parents, Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober had met when Otto was the professor for one of Aurelia's courses at Boston University. Aurelia graduated second in her high school class, was valedictorian of her Boston University undergraduate class, and was a teacher of English and German studying for her master's degree. Otto was a professor of German and Biology (specializing in bees) who was married, but separated thirteen years, when he met Aurelia.
Sylvia was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston after her parents had married on January 4 of that year. Her younger brother Warren was born a few years later in April of 1935. During the latter half of the 1930's Otto became increasingly ill and was convinced of his self-diagnosis of lung cancer. He refused to seek medical care due to the lack of a cure or effective treatment at that time. In 1940 after suffering ill health for ye
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