Sylvia Plath Research Paper

When Sylvia Plath was just nine years old she had already come to love the ways of writing, and by the age of twelve she had created a habit of writing one or more poems a day. She was writing for the Boston Herald by the age of eight and brought her love of writing to the grave when she committed suicide at the age of thirty in 1963 (Daddy). Plath had to live without her father for the majority of her life, but when she finally found a husband, they got divorced after he left her for another woman. Not only did she have to deal with those struggles, but it all happened during the years of the Holocaust (Daddy). She was able to convey her deep pain into beautiful poetry, something that takes true courage and skill. Sylvia Plath’s poetry explores despair, violent emotion, and death; the poet herself used the tragedies of her life such as the death of her father, her broken marriage, and the Holocaust to create her poetry.

Plath was born on October twenty- seventh, 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. She was raised by her German father Otto Plath, a professor of zoology, and her Austrian mother, Aurelia Schober Plath. Plath also had one brother named Warren who was 2 years younger than her. In 1940, her father passed away due to diabetes. This was when Plath started to take part in writing and she “published her first poem at the age of eight in the children's section of the Boston Herald” (Daddy). Plath started to record her life in a dairy at the age of 11 and did so until death (Daddy). She used writing as a way to cope with her father's death and spoke a lot about him in many of her poems, such as