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Oct 5, 2017 · It may be surprising that the iconic poet Sylvia Plath, who wrote extensively and evocatively of death and suicide in her poetry, left a note of only four words before taking her own life. A debate has stirred ever since — was Sylvia Plath’s suicide note a death knell, or a cry for help?
Feb 5, 2023 · On February 11, 1963, American poet Sylvia Plath died by suicide inside her London home at the age of just 30 after putting her head in the oven.
- Kaleena Fraga
Oct 29, 2018 · Between February 18, 1960, and February 4, 1963, a week before Sylvia Plath committed suicide, at the age of thirty, she sent a series of candid letters to her close friend and former...
- Dan Chiasson
Dec 9, 2018 · Sylvia Plath, as everybody knows—but as she did not, on the autumnal Tuesday that she was writing about baked pineapples to her mother and about being menaced by gods in her diary— committed...
Aug 23, 1993 · In 1966, Anne Sexton, who committed suicide eleven years after Plath, wrote a poem addressed to Plath entitled “Wanting to Die,” in which these startlingly informative lines appear: But ...
- Janet Malcolm
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Feb 12, 2015 · What drove Sylvia Plath to her death was painfully clear to her psychiatrist: clinical depression. But after the acclaimed poet, just 30 years old, committed suicide on this day, Feb. 11, in 1963, her friends, fans, and biographers were eager to blame the tragedy instead on a flesh-and-blood villain.
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