72 pages
English language
Published 2020
Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. Her verses, which over the years have gained notoriety especially after she took her own life at age thirty, are an attempt to express her despair and obsession with death. Her poems can be considered largely autobiographical and they express her mental anguish, her difficult marriage to poet Ted Hughes, and unresolved conflicts with her parents, as well as how she saw herself.
Both she and her work have been emerging as great icons of feminism, and her poetry as idolized objects; this is only proof that Sylvia Plath was one of the great literary figures of the last century. After more than fifty years since they were written, her verses still embody all their intensity, all their pain, and all their beauty.
“Then heaven and I had a frank conversation. I will surely be more useful …
Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired poets of the twentieth century. Her verses, which over the years have gained notoriety especially after she took her own life at age thirty, are an attempt to express her despair and obsession with death. Her poems can be considered largely autobiographical and they express her mental anguish, her difficult marriage to poet Ted Hughes, and unresolved conflicts with her parents, as well as how she saw herself.
Both she and her work have been emerging as great icons of feminism, and her poetry as idolized objects; this is only proof that Sylvia Plath was one of the great literary figures of the last century. After more than fifty years since they were written, her verses still embody all their intensity, all their pain, and all their beauty.
“Then heaven and I had a frank conversation. I will surely be more useful when I finally lay down forever:”
"It is more natural to me, lying down. Then the sky and I are in open conversation, And I shall be useful when I lie down finally: The the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me"
„Für mich ist es natürlicher, mich hinzulegen. Dann können der Himmel und ich ungezwungen miteinander reden, und so werde ich nützlich sein, wenn ich mich schließlich hinlege: Dann können die Bäume mich einmal berühren, und die Blumen werden Zeit für mich haben"
