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Sylvia Plath
One would think if someone writes about death in all of their writing, that that person is depressed or crazy. Sylvia Plath was depressed and psychotic in certain stages of her life, which is why people were so fascinated with her. How could a young, beautiful, brilliant woman be so sad and dreary? As one looks at her life one realizes her life was very mournful and dark, which is why darkness and death are constant themes in Sylvia Plath's disturbing, but beautiful works of poetry.
Sylvia Plath lived a happy childhood living off the coast of Boston , close to the sea. Sylvia, later in life would say, "My ocean-childhood is probably…the foundation of my consciousness" (Barnard 13). Sylvia lived with her father; Otto Emil Plath, her mother; Aurelia Plath, and her brother; Warren Plath. Her cultural background was German American; German from her father and American from her mother.
Plath started writing poetry at the very......

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