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This 4 page report discusses Sylvia Plath (1932-63),
the American poet and writer who is most often remembered as a brilliant but tortured
artist who faced a mental breakdown and immeasurable despair that eventually led her to
kill herself at the age of 31. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
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that eventually led her to kill herself at the age of 31. Her works have touched the lives and resonated with the personal experience of countless people, especially young women
who have experienced much of the angst of growing up female in a so-called "mans world." As the student researches Plath, he or she will see that there is a
measured and bittersweet joy along with the pain expressed in both the prose and poetry of Plath. In fact, her famous 1963 novel, The Bell Jar (originally published under the
pseudonym of "Victoria Lewis") is thought by many as a book which offered them a life-altering awareness of their own life. As Richard Whittington-Egan (1998) points out: "The fact is
that Sylvia Plath is both icon and artifact" (pp. 238). She was a remarkable talent, a passionate woman, meticulous poet, and a deception. Even forty years after her death, it
is difficult to determine what is and was true about Plath and how it applies to those who read it. Genius and Despair Whittington-Egan describes Sylvia Plath as a
young woman as being the: "shining, super-wholesome, all-American, super-clever, straight Alpha, scholarship-winning, prize-carrying-off, prize-to-be-carried-off college girl. But she was really one of the gods high-heeled walking wounded" (pp. 239). She
was born in Boston, the daughter of a university professor and one of his graduate students. She began writing her poetry when she was only a child and her genuinely
precocious nature can be seen in her comment when her father died when she was only eight years old. She told her mother: "Ill never speak to God again" (Internet
source). Her first poem was also published in the childrens section of the Boston Herald when she was eight (Internet source). By the time she was in high school,
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