First, one element that indicates Sylvia Plath led a melancholy life is her father's death. Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts into the home of Otto and Aurelia Plath. Her home was in Winthrop, a seaside town near Boston that helped Plath to develop her poetic and artistic voice as a child through her fascination with the sea. The death of Plath's father, Otto Plath had a enormous impact on many of Plath's childhood memories. Plath had a strong relationship with her father, and "apparently, idolized him" (Unger 529) which made it very difficult for her when he died of complications from a negl

In conclusion, Sylvia Plath led a melancholy life due to the death of her father, the periods of depression that she suffered, and her suicide attempt that resulted in her death. Plath was an intelligent, talented and sharp poet that with her uniquely strong poetic voice startled and moved the world. Among the few that embraced our societies taboo's, (suicide, death and dying, all which denies our future) Plath left a definite mark by following through with what her poetry and writings shouted. Although some think her suicide was coincidental and not relating to her work; many believe that her poetry and her suicide were intertwined, one the cause of the other.

Finally, the last element that indicates Sylvia Plath led a melancholy life is her attempt at suicide that resulted in her death. Plath published a enormous amount of poetry and writing, her first official publication starting when she was eight in the Boston Sunday Herald. Some of her most famous work includes "Tulips", "In Plaster"; both poems which were spurred by her miscarriage in 1961. Perhaps her most distinguished work is her novel, "The Bell Jar" which is a work of "imaginative transformation of experience" ("Sylvia Plath"). This novel's details were taken so literally from her life that it can almost be read as an autobiography. In the novel, Esther; the main character that can be identified as a somewhat "revised version" of Plath; feels that she is fake, a sham. She is afraid that she will be discovered as this and for how stupid and shallow she really is. To her this is life in a bell jar. One can relate Plath's periods of depression to the lowering of the bell jar over her; as well as her death; for she fears it- "with it's stifling distortions" (Plath). Plath's poetry is very unique; her poetic voice is very

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