The Paralelle lives of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath

<Tab/>"Any writer, any artist, I'm sure is obsessed with death, a prerequisite for life" -Anne Sexton <Tab/>Throughout time artists have always been known as a bit eccentric. Because they are a thinking class, their minds expand a bit farther, a bit more abstractly, than what most would consider the "norm." Thus, their opinion on certain things may seem a little strange to the average onlooker. …

…why these women choose poetry to outlet their misery. A suicide defies the laws of nature and development; it halts the life process. Every poem however is a fresh new beginning. A medium in which feeling, thought and desire can be articulated. Perhaps writing poetry made these women feel alive in a world of misery that made them feel dead, through simulating the one thing they believed would bring them joy; to escape it, death.