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Silvia Plath

Silvia Plath. Childhood . Plath was born during the Great Depression on October 27 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. When Plath was eight she published her first poem in the Boston Herald's children's section . She was also becoming known in the art world. College Years.

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Silvia Plath

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  1. Silvia Plath

  2. Childhood • Plath was born during the Great Depression on October 27 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. • When Plath was eight she published her first poem in the Boston Herald's children's section. • She was also becoming known in the art world.

  3. College Years • Plath attended Smith College. While attending she started dating Yale senior Dick Norton during her first year. Norton was later used for a character in Bell Jar, another one of her poems.

  4. Marriage • Plath's marriage to Hughes was a complicated one with Hughes being involved with other women which in turn became divorced. • She returned to London with their children, Frieda and Nicholas • Rented a flat at 23 Fitzroy Road.

  5. Death • Plath took her own life after she completely sealed the rooms with wet towels and cloths. Plath then placed her head in the oven while the gas was turned on and the pilot light was not lit. • The next day an inquiry ruled that her death was a suicide.

  6. List of poems The Ghost's LeavetakingThe Glutton Goatsucker Gold mouths cry The Goring The Great Carbuncle Gulliver The Hanging Man Hardcastle Crags Heavy Woman The Hermit at Outermost House I Am Vertical Incommunicado Insomniac Jilted Kindness Lady Lazarus Lament Landowners Last Words Leaving Early Lesbos A Lesson in Vengeance Letter in November Letter to a Purist A Life Little Fugue LoreleiLove Letter LyonnesseMad Girl's Love Song Maenad Magi Magnolia Shoals Man In Black The Manor Garden Mary's Song Maudlin Medallion Medusa The Times Are Tidy Three Women To a Jilted Lover Totem Touch-and-Go The Trial of Man Tulips Two Campers in Cloud Country Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea Two Sisters of Persephone Two Views of a Cadaver Vanity Fair Verbal Calisthenics Virgin in a Tree Waking in Winter I Want, I Want Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows Who Widow Wintering Winter Landscape, with Rooks A Winter Ship Winter Trees Witch Burning Whiteness I Remember Whitsun Words Words heard, by accident, over the phone Wuthering Heights Yaddo : The Grand Manor Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies Years You're Zoo-Keeper's Wife Above the Oxbow Admonitions Aftermath Alicante Lullaby All the Dead Dears Among the Narcissi An Appearance The Applicant Apprehensions April 18 April AubadeAquatic Nocturne Ariel The Arrival of the Bee Box The Babysitters Balloons Barren Woman The Beast The Bee Keeper's Daughter The Bee Meeting Berck-PlageA Better Resurrection A Birthday Present Bitter Strawberries BlackberryingBlack Pine Tree in an Orange Light Black Rook in Rainy Weather Bluebeard Blue Moles Brasilia Bucolics The Bull of BendylawBurning the Letters The Burnt-out Spa By Candlelight Candles Channel Crossing Child Childless Woman Child's Park Stones Cinderella The Colossus The Companionable Ills Contusion Conversation Among the Ruins The Couriers Crossing the Water Crystal Gazer Cut Daddy Dark House Dark Wood, Dark Water The Dead Death & Co. The Death of Myth-Making Denouement Departure Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest Dirge for a Joker The Disquieting MusesDoom of ExilesDoomsday Edge Electra on Azalea Path Elm To Eva Descending the Stair Event The Everlasting Monday The Eye-Mote Face Lift Family Reunion Faun Fearful Female Author Fever 103 Fiesta Melons Finisterre FiresongFlute Notes from a Reedy Pond For a Fatherless Son Frog Autumn Full Fathom Five Getting There Gigolo Metaphors Mirror Miss Drake Proceeds to Supper Monologue at 3 AM The Moon and the Yew Tree Moonrise Morning Song The Munich Mannequins Mushrooms Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor Mystic Natural HistoryNever try to trick me with a kiss New Year on Dartmoor Nick and the Candlestick The Night Dances Nightshift Notes to a Neophyte Ode for Ted Old Ladies' Home On Deck On Looking into the Eyes of a Demon Lover The Other The Other Two Ouija Owl Paralytic Parliament Hill Fields PerseusPheasant In Plaster Poems, Potatoes Point Shirley Polly's Tree Poppies in July Poppies in October Private Ground Prologue to Spring Prospect PurdahPursuit The Queen's Complaint The Ravaged Face Recantation Resolve Rhyme The Rival Sculptor Sheep in Fog The Shrike Sleep in the Mojave Desert The Sleepers SnakecharmerSoliloquy of the Solipsist Sonnet : To Eva Sonnet to Satan Song for a Summer's Day A Sorcerer Bids Farewell to Seem Southern Sunrise Sow Spinster Stillborn Stings The Stones Strumpet Song Suicide Off Egg Rock The Surgeon at 2 A.M. The Swarm Tale of a Tub Terminal Thalidomide The Thin People

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