This document provides a summary of Oct. 27, - Feb. 11, Biographical Information. - Born in Massachusetts to European immigrant parents. - Suffered from depression and made several suicide attempts, finally succeeding.
Sylvia Plath was an Sylvia Plath was a American poet born in who began publishing poems at age 8 and won numerous awards as a model student. She struggled with mental health issues including a suicide attempt in college. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes and published her first book in
The story, scarcely disguised autobiography, Plath had a series of mental illness and depression since childhood and had been treated with electroconvulsive therapy. Sylvia Plath made her first medically documented suicide attempt in late August when she was 20 years old. She took the sleeping pills from her mother's cabinet and then went to the basement of her house.
Mostly ignored during her lifetime, This document provides a biography of poet Sylvia Plath. It details key events in her life, including her childhood in Massachusetts, education at Smith College where she struggled with mental health issues, marriage to fellow poet Ted Hughes, and career writing poetry.
The paper explores the influence While she was a student, Sylvia Plath spent time in New York City during the summer of working for Mademoiselle magazine as a guest editor. Soon after, at the age of 20, Plath tried to kill herself by taking sleeping pills.
Introduction excerpted from "Who's Afraid Sylvia Plath. “The blood jet is poetry / there is no stopping it.”. A brief biography: childhood. After discovering poetry, Sylvia said I “had fallen into a new way of being happy.”.
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath “The blood jet is poetry / there is no stopping it.” A brief biography: childhood Born in Boston on October 27, , to Aurelia Schober and Otto Plath Her father was German-Polish; uni professor and bee-keeper A precocious child- knew insect names in Latin!. 
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