Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 and grew up on the Massachusetts coast. Her father died when she was eight. A stellar student, Plath won scholarships to ... Chapter 1 · Plot Summary · Themes · Chapter 14

"Daddy" is a controversial and highly anthologized poem by the American poet Sylvia Plath. Published posthumously in 1965 as part of the collection Ariel, ...

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In Sylvia Plath's "You're," a mother addresses her unborn baby. Describing the child in vivid, playful figurative language, the speaker conveys both ...

Sylvia Plath wrote "Tulips" in March of 1961, after having her appendix removed and receiving get-well flowers from a friend. The speaker of the poem, ...

The poem paints a surreal, intimate, and tender portrait of a woman navigating motherhood for the first time. The speaker struggles to see her infant—who was so ...

This Guardian article, titled "Written out • Wind of history," examines the contradictions between the events surrounding Hughes's relationship with Wevill.

Sylvia Plath's “The Applicant” is a free verse dramatic monologue in which a salesperson rigorously interviews a man who has applied to buy a wife.

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Written from the point of view of a personified mirror, the poem explores Plath's own fears regarding aging and death. The mirror insists that it objectively ...