Sylvia Plath Research Paper

How does someone that makes such an impact on poetry just end their life? Sylvia Plath was a vigorous and a praised writer of the 20th century. Plath was a talented poet before she ended her life in 1963. Although the death of Plath’s father, when the poet was eight, spurred a lifelong struggle with depression, her relationship with her father shaped her work infusing it with anger and longing. In 1956 Plath had met Ted Hughes after she was published for the first time. Plath got the opportunity to go to the United Kingdom, unfortunately she had a nervous breakdown and tried to end her life, she was hospitalized. After she was released from the hospital she went to finish her senior year, then went to Cambridge and met her future husband, Ted Hughes. and she marries him, has two children, Freida, in 1960, and Nicholas, in 1962,. By 1962 Plath and Hughes were divorced and her depression began to uprise. By 2009, her son, Nicholas, ended his life as well. In 1965, Plath’s poem , “Lady Lazarus,” was published; which was a brutal and

Plath wrote a break up poem, “Burning the letters,” about Ted’s affair. Shortly after the break up, Assia realized she was carrying Ted’s child. After years of being together, Wevills ended her life and their four year- old child, Shura. Many believe Hughes was the reasoning for Plath’s death, because he had an affair and left which is seemed to be what drove her to kill herself. Hughes would rely on Plath to care for the children while he was off working, with her chronic depression she could not handle to care for two toddlers by herself. Eventually, she got a nanny and turned on her gas oven, used a cloth for comfort, and the gas she was inhaling eventually suffocated her, ending her life. Which resulted in the mistreatment of Plath by Hughes, eventually blaming him for her