Everyone passes away in their lifetime, but not everyone will die at their own hand. Sylvia Plath, a famous poet in the mid 1900’s, was one who died at her own hand from suicide in 1963. Plath was a very intelligent, beautiful, clever woman who loved to write poems from an early age. Plath even had her first poem published when she was only eight years old! Today, Plath has over 200 poems published and was awarded the Clascock Prize in 1955 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982 after her death. Plath was survived by her husband and two children but her most famous poem was about her father who died when she was younger and had a big influence on her.
On October 27, 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath’s life began. “Sylvia was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the 20th century” (poetryfoundation.org). Plath took a liking to reading and writing poems at a very early age. She started out keeping a journal to hold all of her poems in and later, her very first poem got published when she was just eight years old. The first poem of Sylvia’s to get published was about her father who had earlier died from complications involving diabetes right after she had turned eight.
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Plath loved to write all the time. Plath wrote even when she was experiencing one of the hardest times in her life shortly before she committed suicide. Although Sylvia Plath said a lot in her short lived life, a quote that that may have some insight on how she wrote her work would be, “Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.” ("BrainyQuote"). A majority of Plath’s work was published in books boatload full of poems for children and adults of all ages after her death. Plath has been and will be forever missed from everyone in the poetry world because of her wonderful