Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Many who admire Sylvia Plath look with considerable astonishment at the normalcy of her childhood and life. To most Plath always seemed to be a motivated, brilliant and energetic individual who seemed to have had everything going for her as a middle class girl living in the 1950’s. But when compared her life to her poetry and her history of depression, it hardly seems as if she came from such a “typical” background. …

…poet that with her uniquely strong poetic voice startled and moved the world. Among the few that embraced our societies taboo’s, (suicide, death and dying, all which denies our future) Plath left a definite mark by following through with what her poetry and writings shouted. Although some think her suicide was coincidental and not relating to her work; many believe that her poetry and her suicide were intertwined, one the cause of the other.