Sylvia Plath: Young Poet At the age of eight, Sylvia Plath published her first poem (What You Did Not Know About Sylvia Plath’s Life). She fell in love with writing from a young age (Richard Eberhart). She wrote in a journal to share her emotions, and because of this she started her writing career. In her poems she is known to use similes and metaphors to describe her painful childhood. Sylvia Plath’s life was different from a young age because of the verbal abuse she suffered at home. Her hard times are why she began to write; to free her emotions.
One of the many remembered American poets is Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27,1932 in Boston, Massachusetts to a pair of teachers. At a young age Plath lost her father to diabetes