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Plath's letters were published in 1975, edited and selected by her mother Aurelia Plath. The collection Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 came out partly in response to the strong public reaction to the publication of The Bell Jar in America. [36] Plath began keeping a diary from the age of 11 and continued doing so until her suicide. Her adult diaries, starting from her first year at Smith College in 1950, were published in 1982 as The Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Frances McCullough, with Ted Hughes as consulting editor. In 1982, when Smith College acquired Plath's remaining journals, Hughes sealed two of them until February 11, 2013, the 50th anniversary of Plath's death. [76] This stanza, she argues, outlines her pre-dawn poetry writing, for in the poem these actions take place before the sun has risen, and because she is interpreting Plath's poetic "undressing" as an erotic metaphor for her undressing the structure to which she adhered before Ariel and The Colossus. [3] This is seemingly further supported by another critic who argues that by "unpeeling" these dead "stringencies" she is taking off the Latinate diction which she had previously characterized much of her oeuvre of poetry, [3] which some have argued as an earlier attempt to define herself a poetic identity. [3] Thus, in this stanza she begins to undress her poetry, and then, as she continues, Plath begins to reach her climax, and undergo a sort of poetic orgasm in the next lines: [3] Rare Books & Literary Archives | Smith College Libraries". www.smith.edu. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017 . Retrieved October 23, 2017. It is controlled, serious verse but her later work shows new strains and pressures at work and becomes a poetry of anguished confession.” The poem shares some of its ideas with a 1960's feminist movement known as 'Second Wave Feminism'. This can be seen in the inclusion of the female figure of Godiva. Lady Godiva stood up to her husband on behalf of the poor.a b "Sylvia Platt". Smith College. Archived from the original on June 24, 2021 . Retrieved June 20, 2021. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with early versions of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). [3] She ended her own life in 1963. An inquest was held on February 15 and gave a ruling of suicide as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. [48] Hughes was devastated; they had been separated for six months, due to his affair with Assia Wevill. In a letter to an old friend of Plath from Smith College, he wrote "That's the end of my life. The rest is posthumous." [35] [49] Wevill also committed suicide, using a gas stove, six years later. Sylvia Plath collection, 1952–1989, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University Libraries Some in the feminist movement saw Plath as speaking for their experience, as a "symbol of blighted female genius". [43] Writer Honor Moore describes Ariel as marking the beginning of a movement, Plath suddenly visible as "a woman on paper", certain and audacious. Moore says: "When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published in the United States in 1966, American women noticed. Not only women who ordinarily read poems, but housewives and mothers whose ambitions had awakened ... Here was a woman, superbly trained in her craft, whose final poems uncompromisingly charted female rage, ambivalence, and grief, in a voice with which many women identified." [98] Some feminists threatened to kill Hughes in Plath's name. [43]
Butscher, Edward (1977). Sylvia Plath: The Woman and the Work. Dodd, Mead. pp. 42–48. ISBN 978-0-396-07497-7. Padnani, Amisha (March 8, 2018). "Remarkable Women We Overlooked in Our Obituaries". The New York Times . Retrieved March 24, 2018. Plath, Sylvia (1981). The Collected Poems: Sylvia Plath. Harper & Row. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-06-090900-0. I have something dead in my handbag. Tee hee. Also, I scratched myself and made myself bleed. I don't really recommend marriage.Her achievement raises issues concerning the value of literature and its relation to life. The last poem suggests that words are dubious allies in the struggle to maintain a sense of reality. They are solid and fixed and resonant, abut as circumstances alter, they become emptied of meaning. Plath's gravestone, in Heptonstall's parish churchyard of St Thomas the Apostle bears the inscription that Hughes chose for her: [50] "Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted." Biographers attribute the source of the quote to the Hindu text the Bhagavad Gita [50] or to the 16th-century Buddhist novel Journey to the West written by Wu Cheng'en. [51] [52] Wagner, Erica. (2002). Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and the Story of Birthday Letters. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-32301-3.
The couple married on June 16, 1956, at St George the Martyr, Holborn in London (now in the Borough of Camden) with Plath's mother in attendance, and spent their honeymoon in Paris and Benidorm. Plath returned to Newnham in October to begin her second year. [5] During this time, they both became deeply interested in astrology and the supernatural, using ouija boards. [25] Ariel was written at a turbulent time for Plath, separating from her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, and suffering from mental health difficulties. It was Ted Hughes who controversially edited the collection following Sylvia Plath's death. Some critics were upset at Hughes editing the collection due to the breakdown of their marriage and the personal nature of the poems. Plath’s poems are a tribute to the resourcefulness of the creative imagination and its capacity to render meaningful the hazardous course of an individual life. Sylvia Plath's Cambridge-era Prose: A Survey". sylviaplathinfo.blogspot.com . Retrieved October 31, 2023. Steinberg, Peter K. (2007) [1999]. "A celebration, this is". sylviaplath.info. Archived from the original on March 19, 2015.Plath, Sylvia (1977) [1962]. "Ocean 1212-W". Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: And Other Prose Writings. London: Faber and Faber. p.130. ISBN 0-571-11120-3. Hayman, Ronald. (1991). The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath. Secaucus, New Jersey: Carol Publishing. ISBN 1-55972-068-9. Liukkonen, Petri. "Sylvia Plath". Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi). Finland: Kuusankoski Public Library. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1932. When Plath was only eight years old, her father, who had been strict and authoritarian in his parenting style, died. His death would become the driving force behind a number of her most famous poems, most notably “ Daddy.” Plath graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1955. This is the same year in which “Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea” was published. She had battled with depression throughout her schooling, attempting suicide in 1953. While it is legitimate to interpret Sylvia Plath’s poetry autobiographically, it can limit understanding. Her poetry also stands alone. One can read into Ariel possible references to women’s entrapment, motherhood, her failed marriage to Ted Hughes and her suicide. But the poem also has universal themes beyond the poet’s own life.
After Otto's death, Aurelia moved her children and her parents to 26 Elmwood Road, Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1942. [7] Plath commented in "Ocean 1212-W", one of her final works, that her first nine years "sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle—beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete, a fine, white flying myth". [5] [13] Plath attended Bradford Senior High School (now Wellesley High School) in Wellesley, graduating in 1950. [5] Just after graduating from high school, she had her first national publication in the Christian Science Monitor. [10] College years and depression [ edit ] Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts The words containing the i sound, cr y, I, fl ies, suic idal, dr ive, Eye, all represent her thrusting her 'I'dentity into reality. [3] Kirk, Connie Ann (2004). Sylvia Plath: A Biography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-33214-2. Poet Plath's son takes own life". BBC. London. March 23, 2009. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009. Morgan, Robin (1970). Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-45240-2.
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In his 1972 book on suicide, The Savage God, friend and critic Al Alvarez claimed that Plath's suicide was an unanswered cry for help, [43] and spoke, in a BBC interview in March 2000, about his failure to recognize Plath's depression, saying he regretted his inability to offer her emotional support: "I failed her on that level. I was thirty years old and stupid. What did I know about chronic clinical depression? She kind of needed someone to take care of her. And that was not something I could do." [47] Plath's grave at Heptonstall church, West Yorkshire Following Plath's death [ edit ] Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be published. It was first released in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. The poems of Ariel, with their free-flowing images and characteristically menacing psychic landscapes, marked a dramatic turn from Plath's earlier Colossus poems. [1]