I chose Sylvia Plath as my poet for this project. She was born

to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts

and she wrote her first poem when she was eight. She was what you would call

the perfect daughter. She was popular smart and she won various scholastic

prizes. Her perfection was just a false image because deep down inside side had

many problems that she kept bottled up. Sylvia lost her father when she was

very young, this was just the begging of her hard life. When she was

the guest writer for Mademoiselle magazine she committed her

first suicide attempt by swallowing over a dozen sleeping pills.

She later was treated with shock therapy and

graduated from the college of Cambridge. While in England she

married with Ted Hughes. She was a very outspoken person with a smile for

everyone. At the age of thirty years old her final suicide attempt killed her. Her

hard life full of suffering and loss was probably what inspired her to write.

This is explains why most of her writing has a gloomy and dark feeling to it.

My poet has so much imagery in her book that I wasn't sure which one to

Most of her writing is free verse. She really doesn't have one set

depression by having strong imagery and strong metaphors. In this case she has

to say but I think she tried to condense it to make her words more potent to

vary throughout her poems because she was probably very depressed every time

you tell me what you think she's talking about. She could be talking about an owl,

Some common words found in the essay are:
Black Fixed, Ted Hughes, Boston Massachusetts, Sylvia Plath, Cambridge England, sprout goat, harden foot foot, sprout goat thorns, goat thorns marked, foot sprout goat, foot foot sprout, hard life, foot foot, foot sprout, goat thorns, harden foot, thorns marked, god rose, marked god, rose galloped,
Approximate Word count = 869
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)