Short Reflection On Sylvia Plath's Life

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Rushabh K Kamdar                                                                                                           English SL

ENGLISH REFLECTION

Almost every recognized author or poet in the history of literature has his writing greatly influenced by his past. The same was the case with one of the most popular poet in the twelfth century, Sylvia Plath. Her whole life was filled with ups and downs and like many others; her works became famous only after her death. Her life was never stable but kept on fluctuating. The depression and the sorrow in her life are evidently seen in many of her works due to their dull and gray theme.

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Throughout her life she never had a permanent home and kept on shifting from one place to another which was very important in her career as she gained lots of experiences as a traveller and learned about cultures of different countries which all are reflected in her poems. Plaths’ shift to Winthrop, for instance, made Sylvia familiar and intimate with the sea and she was able to recognize its beauty and power, which is seen in her poem ‘Mirror’.

Plath started focusing on poems since the age of twelve and placed closed attention on syllabics and line and ...

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