Sylvia Plath Research Paper

Sylvia Plath: The Path Less Traveled Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. She was born to Otto Emile Plath and one of his students, Aurelia (Debata). Her father was German immigrant who taught biology and German at Boston University. She wrote two major works during her lifetime. She won various awards and received much critical acclaim for her work. Sylvia Plath spent much of her life writing about her life experiences, but she could not escape her own demons. Plath spent most of her childhood by the sea, until her father abruptly died in 1940 from diabetes mellitus (Sylvia). The Plath family would eventually move to Wellesley, Massachusetts, so her mother could get a job at Boston College. Plath won numerous awards and had stories published in her youth, before she even got to college. Her first poem entitled On Hot Summer Nights, which she won an award for, was published in the Boston Herald when she was eight years old (Debata). Plath won a scholarship to Smith College in Massachusetts, where she

Ariel, which was published in 1965, contained poems selected by her husband Hughes from among the many works Plath had composed during her final months before her death (Sylvia). Letters Home, which was published in 1975, was a collection letters between Sylvia Plath and her mother. The Collected Poems, was published in 1981, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 and contained several previously unpublished pieces (Sylvia). Besides the Pulitzer Prize that her work would win after her death, Plath did not win many awards for her work. Her work garnered much critical praise, especially for her technical accomplishment and stark insight into severe psychological issues (Sylvia). Plath has received some criticism for her writing style as well especially the idea that Plath has a notion of herself as a victim of two domineering men