Sylvia Plath Research Paper
Sylvia Plath
Surviving tragedies in a harsh reality is something only the strongest of souls can do. Sylvia Plath was not a strong soul. She sought comfort in the words of her poetry and in her book The Bell Jar, but it was not enough. She had a dark and sad life, and Sylvia was constantly depressed. These warning signs provided Plath with fuel for her poems, but what her family, and society did not realize was that her writings were a desperate cry for help, and help never came. Sylvia Plath, awakened the world to the ideas of suicide awareness, after writing many literary works that pointed to an illness no one knew would take her life.
Sylvia was in a car accident, where she ran her car into a tree, the same year she tried to kill herself. The accident may have been another suicide attempt or …show more content…
Aurelia, Sylvia’s mother, was a student at Boston University. She met Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath, he was her professor. Her parents got married in January of 1932. In 1940, Plath was eight years old, her father died as a result of complications from diabetes. Her father’s strict attitudes and his death drastically defined her poems, especially in her infamous poem “daddy” (“Sylvia Plath”). “ Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time--” (“Sylvia Plath”). These two lines in her poem “daddy” express how much it hurt when her father passed away. Her relationship with her father was strong and they were extremely close. Growing up, Sylvia was always driven to succeed, her first national publication was in the Christian Science Monitor in 1950, right after graduating high school (“Sylvia Plath”). In 1950 Plath joined Smith College. She was an excellent student, and despite her deep depression she went through in 1953 and a following suicide attempt, she managed to graduate summa cum laude in 1955. After graduation, Plath moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship (Sylvia
Surviving tragedies in a harsh reality is something only the strongest of souls can do. Sylvia Plath was not a strong soul. She sought comfort in the words of her poetry and in her book The Bell Jar, but it was not enough. She had a dark and sad life, and Sylvia was constantly depressed. These warning signs provided Plath with fuel for her poems, but what her family, and society did not realize was that her writings were a desperate cry for help, and help never came. Sylvia Plath, awakened the world to the ideas of suicide awareness, after writing many literary works that pointed to an illness no one knew would take her life.
Sylvia was in a car accident, where she ran her car into a tree, the same year she tried to kill herself. The accident may have been another suicide attempt or …show more content…
Aurelia, Sylvia’s mother, was a student at Boston University. She met Sylvia’s father, Otto Plath, he was her professor. Her parents got married in January of 1932. In 1940, Plath was eight years old, her father died as a result of complications from diabetes. Her father’s strict attitudes and his death drastically defined her poems, especially in her infamous poem “daddy” (“Sylvia Plath”). “ Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time--” (“Sylvia Plath”). These two lines in her poem “daddy” express how much it hurt when her father passed away. Her relationship with her father was strong and they were extremely close. Growing up, Sylvia was always driven to succeed, her first national publication was in the Christian Science Monitor in 1950, right after graduating high school (“Sylvia Plath”). In 1950 Plath joined Smith College. She was an excellent student, and despite her deep depression she went through in 1953 and a following suicide attempt, she managed to graduate summa cum laude in 1955. After graduation, Plath moved to Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright Scholarship (Sylvia