Women in Poetry : ~Sylvia Plath~

~..Sylvia Plath..~  (1932-1963)

Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. She  is a writer whose life has generated unusually keen interest.  I value  Sylvia  Plath's work as an artist , and believe she strikes a responsive chord in her readers and many can see in her very popular novel,  The Bell Jar. Nowadays, many high school and college students are required to read The Bell Jar .

  Sylvia first work that have been published was  The Colossus . Beside  The Bell Jar, her most impressive work is Ariel poems. Even though at first she received a little criticism , the critics finally reread her work because they was impressed with the technical excellence and the emotional intensity of her late poems. Through all of her writing, poetry and fiction, her attention remains fixed on death and disintegration with occasional explorations of their alternatives. In these poems, Plath achieved her finest means of expression and states most successfully the themes which her writing have expressed from the beginning. In 1982, Plath became the first person to win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

      The Bell Jar was written in 1963 which is the same year as her death,was actually based on her true story after she  was left by her husband,the poet Teg Hughes for another woman. She felt very depress.  Struggling with her mental illness, she wrote The Bell Jar her only novel, deals with one young woman's mental breakdown. Plath published the novel under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. She also created the poems that would make up the collection Ariel (1965), which was released after her death. Sylvia Plath committed suicide on February 11, 1963 

From my point of view, she steers clear of feminine charm, gentility, super sensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry.  And, she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously.  Bernard Eergonzi in the Guardian said ' It shows what a remarkable talent she already possessed and is a very satisfying volume in its own right.'

Among of her famous poems:      * Frog Autumn
                                                * Ariel
                                                * The Shrike
                                                * Ode for Ted
                                                * Child