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Sylvia Plath, an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer, is renowned for her poignant and haunting poetry that explores the depths of human emotions. While Plath's work covers a wide range of themes, her exploration of death stands out as particularly powerful.
5 de feb. de 2023 · Sylvia Plath died by suicide at the age of 30 on February 11, 1963, following a barrage of literary rejections and her husband's infidelity. Bettmann/Getty Images Sylvia Plath was just 30 years old when she died by suicide in London. On a frigid night during one of the coldest winters in London’s history, a young poet named Sylvia Plath lay ...
Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in October of 1932. Her mother was Aurelia Schober Plath and was of American-Austrian descent. Plath’s father was Otto Plath. He was an entomologist and professor from Grabow, Germany. In 1936, the family moved from Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts to Winthrop. It was here, at eight years old, that ...
Blackberrying. By Sylvia Plath. Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries, Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea. Somewhere at the end of it, heaving. Blackberries. Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes. Ebon in the hedges, fat.
Shadows. Flakes from my heels. Dead hands, dead stringencies. Foam to wheat, a glitter of seas. Melts in the wall. Eye, the cauldron of morning. First published in Ariel , 1965. Reprinted in The Collected Poems, 1981. Sylvia Plath, “Ariel” from Collected Poems.
How your bad dreams possess and endow me. I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out. Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am terrified by this dark thing. That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse.
11 de feb. de 2013 · What Sylvia Plath Loved - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. February 11, 2013, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Sylvia Plath's death.
