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Sylvia Plath Confessional Poetry

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Sylvia Plath is a poet and author that holds one of the most mysterious backstories to this day, she still has dedicated fans to her work, her life story, and her mindset. From her kind yet troubled nature to an abusive husband, the elusive period leading to why she ended her own life remains clear to no-one but herself (Schober,“11 September... to Aurelia Plath.”) . Un-published letters by Sylvia to this day are being found, claiming that Ted, her husband, abused her two days before her miscarriage of her second child, and telling her that he wanted her dead (Kean, “Unseen Sylvia...abuse by Ted Hughes.”) . I believe that Sylvia Plath’s work is some of the best examples of confessional poetry that relates to the poet itself and her work ‘mirror’ shows this well.
Plath was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, MA to Otto Plath, a German author, and Aurelia Frances Plath (Stienburg, “Sylvia Plath.”) . As a child, Sylvia hit the ground running, at an extremely young age she kept journals that were filled with beautiful writings that predicted her unique style of blatant honesty and confession-like work she is known for. By age 8, her first poem was published in ‘The Boston Herald’(Stienburg, “Sylvia Plath.”) . She lived a life as a troubled yet talented artist, during her studies in college and working for Mademoiselle magazine, Sylvia tried to commit suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills (Steinburg, “Sylvia …show more content…

Sylvia Plath is one of the most mysterious artists of the 20th century, not just for her magnificent work that showed a raw and vulnerable side of a struggling mind, but a prime example that from pain, comes beauty. ‘Mirror’ is a great example of this; The reader is viewing the poem from the perspective of the mirror, so they are able to watch the woman in a personal setting, hidden away from society and criticizing herself. Something that almost everyone does, but people rarely talks about. It is ‘taboo’ to hate yourself, and ‘taboo’ is what Sylvia did

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