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A 5 page paper which considers Plath’s contributions to the development of literature and the effects she has had on her contemporaries and those writers who followed her. Also included is some brief biographical information, a listing of her major works and a summary of some critical opinions. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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world to see. Her poetry probed the depths of her soul as she searched for elusive answers to lifes questions. Plaths 1963 suicide at age 32 has overshadowed
her impressive body of poetry, which, in addition to the most prevalent theme of death, also explored themes of fear, alienation, insecurity, and the complexity of human relationships -- with
parents, spouses, and children. Reading the poetry of Sylvia Plath is not something one does to kill time on a rainy Saturday afternoon. It requires intelligence, insight, an
understanding of the English language and a true appreciation of the poetic art form. Plaths writings are not for everyone. She assumed her readers were well-educated on history,
social science and current events, and possessed the same worldly sophistication as she. For Sylvia Plath, her art was a mirror image of her life and inner torment, and
to understand her poetry, one must first consider and understand the tortured poet. Sylvia Plath was born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932, the eldest child of Dr.
Otto and Aurelia Plath (Bloom 1). Her parents were intellectuals, with her father a professor of German and entomology (specializing in bees), and her mother, a former student of
Otto Plaths, a high school teacher (Bloom 1). Although Dr. Otto Plath suffered from cancer and diabetes and died as a result of surgical complications in 1941, his memory
cast a long and lasting on Sylvias life, and inspired her what many consider to be her greatest and certainly most haunting poem, "Daddy" (Bloom 1). Of her father,
she wrote, "I never could talk to you. / The tongue stuck in my jaw. / It stuck in a barb wire snare. / Ich, ich, ich, ich, / I
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