Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a very talented and distraught, which is what makes her style of poetry so popular. Later in 1953, she spent her time in New York, working for a magazine company, Mademoiselle. During that time she tried killing herself by taking sleeping pills, but she received helped immediately in a mental health facility and returned to college to finish her degree. Sylvia married a poet named Ted Hughes, but later he left her for another woman. This put Sylvia into a deep depression, her mental illness led to her writing The Bell Jar (1963). This novel was based on Sylvias life and a young woman’s suicidal depression. Sylvia then committed suicide in 1963. Sylvia Plath's poem Cut explains her feelings about the cut she has on her wounded thumb. Her poem can be understood in different ways, such as the poem being about her husband or as a feminist expression. Her husband, Ted Hughes, did have an affair that caused Sylvia to be distraught. Her thumb could be representing her husband, which leads to Plath fantasizing about attacking her husband. She writes about trepanning, which could be an insult to her husband's itelligence. …show more content…
This poem was dedicated to one of Plath’s close friends and nanny,Susan O’Neill Roe, during her single motherhood. Plath’s relationship with Roe is completely different from the disturbing images you can get from the poem. In Sylvia’s poem Daddy. she is referring to her deceased father. In the beginning of her poem she insists that she has to kill her father, but she she was too late because of his death.
You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and