Sylvia Plath was born on 27 October 1932.
Sylvia Plath.
It is cold and blustery, today, but the sun shines with extra force. How appropriate.
“Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.”-Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition
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Only one novel published posthumously. Do you suppose she would have written more had she lived? My mother committed suicide early in life. I have often wondered what she might have become. She danced ballet and taught lessons in tap and ballet. She had once hoped to become a famous dancer or Hollywood actress.
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Absolutely! The fact that she only had one published novel at the time of her death (it actually appeared in the UK a few weeks before her suicide, although it wasn’t published in the US until 1971) was definitely not indicative of her dedication to writing. She was barely thirty, and was primarily a poet. She wrote copiously in the months leading up to her death. I believe that she would have written until her dying day, even if she had lived to ninety!
I am so sorry about your mother. That is an unfathomable loss. I only have one experience with a person committing suicide (a close relative of my best friend and her husband, just last year) and I know that the what-ifs are already eating his family up. I hope that you have been able to heal, as much as it is possible to do so in the face of something so devastating.
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Oh yes! I do feel healed, but it is something you never forget and I was separated from my sisters as a result, so never really close. That’s sad.
I would like to read The Bell Jar again, but I would also like to read her poetry, which I have never done. I will look into that. Thanks!
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That is very sad indeed!
Although The Bell Jar is great, her critical reputation really rests on her incredible poetry. I highly recommend giving it a go!
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