Sylvia plath
Transcript of Sylvia plath
SYLVIA PLATHCreated By: William Mathis
Early Life
Born : October 27th 1932 in Boston, Mass.
Father : Otto Plath Mother : Aurelia
Plath Father Died at eight
years old. First Poem: 8 and
half years old
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Major Works
Her two best known poems : “Daddy”, “Lady Lazarus”
Only Novel : The Bell Jar Wrote man journals in life time.
All Information found at http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/splath.htm
Attempted Suicide
Age 20 : first attempt at suicide with pills
Attempted suicide twice before the age of 31.
Suffered from depression.
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The Bell Jar
Only novel that Plath wrote.
Deals with Esther Greenwood
Follows the dive into insanity.
Deals with frailty of the human mind.
Suicide, death and rape.
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The Bell Jar:A Semi autobiography
The Bell Jar- is a very transparent telling of Plath’s life.
Allusion to many real people in Plath’s life.
Including- her doctor, her patrons and teachers in Plath’s past.
Esther Greenwood (Main character of the novel) also works for the same magazine as Plath as well as attaining similar scholarships.
Information from: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/belljar/
Ted Hughes
Plath’s First Husband
British Poet Laureate 1984-1998
Was married to Plath from 1956 to 1963
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Assia Wevill
Plath’s Husband ,Ted Hughes, left Plath for Wevill.
The affair has been attributed to the suicide of Plath.
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Death
London on February 11, 1963 Plath Commited Suicide Left two children Frieda and Nicholas in
their bedroom Provided food and drink for them. Had head in oven with gas spouts on. Found by her nurse the following
morning.
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Hughes’s Controversy
Ted Hughes has, usually by feminists and American Plath fans, been considered Plath’s murderer.
Controversially destroyed Plath’s journals detailing the last months of their relationship.
Believed to maybe entail her thoughts on his infidelity.
Information from :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes#Career
Grave
Buried – February 1963.
Last name Hughes is generally chiseled off.
Supporters who think that Hughes killed Plath do this.
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Full List of Lifetime Works Poetry collections The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) Ariel (1961–1965) Three Women: A Monologue for Three Voices (1968) Crossing the Water (1971) Winter Trees (1971) The Collected Poems (1981) Selected Poems (1985) Plath: Poems (1998) Sylvia Plath Reads, Harper Audio (2000) (Audio) Collected prose and novels The Bell Jar: A novel (1963), under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975) Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose, and Diary Excerpts (1977) The Journals of Sylvia Plath (1982) The Magic Mirror (published 1989), Plath's Smith College senior thesis The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, edited by Karen V. Kukil (2000) Children's books The Bed Book (1976) The It-Doesn't-Matter-Suit (1996) Collected Children's Stories (UK, 2001) Mrs. Cherry's Kitchen (2001)
List from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath
Assia Wevill’s Death
23 March 1969 Killed herself as well
as her four year old daughter, Shura
Committed the suicide by placing a mattress in the oven and turning on all the gas valves.
Brought into question Hughes husbandry.
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Nicholas Plath
Also committed suicide on March 23rd, 2009.
Not married, no kids and also battled depression.
Occurred forty six years after his mothers death.
Hanged himself in his own home.
Information from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece
Frieda Hughes
The only surviving child of Hughes and Plath’s
Also a poet and works on BBC radio. Also has written a series of children’s
books. Still living today.
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