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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days" (Sylvia Plath from famous poets). Sylvia Plath, a true icon in the literary world, comes from a broken background which serves to further explain the path her life eventually took. While events from the formidable childhood years of Sylvia Plath set her up for struggles during and after college, The Bell Jar and Holocaust poetry continue to provide the basis for understanding Plath the author and intrigue critics to this day.
"I feel like an outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world, into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass." ("celebration" 2) This brief look into the mind of Sylvia......

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