Sylvia Plath, unfortunately, is known as much for her mental illness â which involved controversial electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), suicide attempts, and eventually her completed suicide â as she is for her writing. Perhaps Plath was one of the first of the post-World War ...
black as burnt turkey, Already half unstrung. A vinegary fume Of the death vats clung to them; The white-smocked boys started working. The head of his cadaver had caved in, And she could scarcely make out anything In that rubble of skull plates and old leather. A sallow...
Sylvia Plath's "Death & Co." is a haunting and deeply introspective poem that explores the themes of mortality, despair, and the inevitability of death. Written in 1962, just a few years before her own tragic suicide, the poem is a powerful reflection on the human condition and the fragil...
The concentration of so much criticism on the schizophrenic condition of Sylvia Plath, and the suicide to which it led, has had the effect of making her tragedy seem a merely private one. Joyce Carol Oates, however, rejects such an approach. In her view
普拉斯或许是一个出发点，但正如罗塞利（Rosselli）在1980年的一篇文章《普拉斯的死亡本能，快乐本能》（Instinct of Death, Instinct of Pleasure in Plath）【Lisa Mullenneaux译】中所写的那样，「用最高强度进行艺术研究，比如对普拉斯的研究，本身就是一种致命的风险。」这种强烈的感情会把它所触及的人烧成灰烬...
Sylvia Plath was an American novelist and poet. Plath met and married British poet Ted Hughes, although the two later split. The depressive Plath committed suicide in 1963, garnering accolades after her death for the novel The Bell Jar, and the poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel. In ...
It is no wonder she should immediately come to mind when dealing with the question of authorship and its commodification: labeled as a feminist, a post-modern, a victim, a poet, a second-rate author, she has been alienated by all the images that have flourished since her death. In ...
Six years later, Ms. Wevill, who had helped raise Nicholas and Frieda after Ms. Plath’s death, also the woman for whom Ted Hughes had left Plath, which led to claims that Hughes had been abusive toward Plath 。killed herself and her 4-year-old daughter, Shura. Ms. Wevill styled the...
Sylvia Plath and Death: Sylvia Plath was only 30 when she died. She was born in Jamaica Hills, New York in the United States, in 1933. She grew up to become a poet and writer of some renown, whose writing often reflected upon death, mental illness, and other morbid subjects. ...
Sylvia Plath took her own life by placing her head in a gas oven and turning on the gas. She had carefully prepared for her death, leaving milk, bread, and butter for her two young children, Frieda and Nicholas, who were asleep in their bedrooms. She also taped the edges of their doo...