SYLVIA PLATH

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Plath was born October 27,1932 in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Plath lost her father when she was eight due to diabetes
• Plath attempted suicide due to depression in 1953
• Plath married Ted Hughes, June 16, 1956
• First collection of poems, Colossus, published in 1960.
• In 1960 and 1962 Plath had two children named Frieda and Nicholas.
• Plath died February 11, 1963 due to suicide

influenced

• by...
• Depression: from her husband leaving her with two kids.
• Marriage: Plath was abandoned to take care of two kids.
• Parent: her father died when she was very young.

MAJOR PARTS OF PLATH LIFE

• When her father died was a impact to her, she wrote a poem dedicated to him.
• When Plath was attempted suicide for the first time shown in her poem named Suicide off Egg Rock
• When she was married to Ted Hughes in 1956
• Even though Plath died she won the Pulitzer Prize

social circumstances,beliefs, and experiences

• Plath was a christian and some of her poems showed with her wording

poppies in October; in this poem Nor the woman in the ambulance is Plath talking about her pervious attempts in suicide. red blooms means red heart or can be bleeding heart. her children are also represented by the sky in this poem. Carbon Monoxides, by eyes talks about what comes out of cars because the fog was in the sky. Oh my God, what am I is her asking a question of why do I deserve this. Cry open most likely talks about the grief she was in.