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Sylvia Plath Facts: 1. Born on October 27, 1932 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts to middle-class parents 2. Straight A's in school; won the best honors 3. Father died when she was 8 4. Only novel (The Bell Jar) published in 1963 5. Commited suicide on February 11, 1963 (age 30) with cooking gas 6. Married English poet Ted Hughes in 1956; divorced two years after their child's birth 7. Nearly succeeded in killing herself by a sleeping pill overdose after her junior year at Smith College 8. Shortly a guest editor for Mademoiselle Magazine 9. First book (The Colossus) published in 1960 at the age of 28 10. When she first attempted suicide, Plath's whereabouts were unknown for two days. 11. Last actions: left her kids a plate of bread and butter and two glasses of milk 12. Went to college at Cambridge University 13. Best impression on her readers. Even people who didn't like poetry loved her poems!


 * Poems by Sylvia Plath

**Morning Song ** || The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
 *  by [|Sylvia Plath] ||
 * Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
 * Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">In my Victorian nightgown. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">Your handful of notes; <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt; tabstops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;">The clear vowels rise like balloons. ||
 * Lady Lazarus ||


 * by [|Sylvia Plath] ||
 * by [|Sylvia Plath] ||

code I have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it--

A sort of walking miracle, my skin Bright as a Nazi lampshade, My right foot

A paperweight, My face a featureless, fine Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin O my enemy. Do I terrify?--

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth? The sour breath Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh The grave cave ate will be At home on me

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three. What a trash To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments. The peanut-crunching crowd Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot-- The big strip tease. Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. The first time it happened I was ten. It was an accident.

The second time I meant To last it out and not come back at all. I rocked shut

As a seashell. They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

It's easy enough to do it in a cell. It's easy enough to do it and stay put. It's the theatrical

Comeback in broad day To the same place, the same face, the same brute Amused shout:

'A miracle!' That knocks me out. There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart-- It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge For a word or a touch Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes. So, so, Herr Doktor. So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus, I am your valuable, The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek. I turn and burn. Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash-- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there--

A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer Beware Beware.

Out of the ashI rise with my red hairAnd I eat men like air. code ||

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Web. 25 Jan. 2011. <http://www.magnussa.com/medicalillustrations.html>. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">Heart-3-clipart Clipart - Heart-3-clipart Clip Art." //Free Clipart Website - 22,000 Free Clip Art//. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. <http://www.clipartheaven.com/show/clipart/holidays/valentines-day/heart-3-clipart-gif.html>. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">"Internet Advertising: Largest Business Spenders on Google AdWords." //HubPages//. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. <http://hubpages.com/hub/Largest-Business-Consumers-of-AdWords>. <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.5in;">"Free Clipart." //Crafty Jenny - Art, Craft and Design Goodies//. 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Anja Beckmann, 16 Apr 2007. Web. 31 Jan 2011. <http://www.sylviaplath.de/>. <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; letter-spacing: 2px; margin-left: 20px; padding: 20px; text-align: left; text-indent: -20px; width: 350px; word-wrap: break-word;"> <span style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24pt; text-align: center; text-indent: -0.5in;">"Nicholas Hughes, Sylvia Plath’s Son Commits Suicide - Times Online." //The Times | UK News, World News and Opinion//. Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5956380.ece>. Wilson, A. N. "The Iron Man Who Had a Heart after All | Mail Online." //Home | Mail Online//. Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-492738/The-Iron-Man-heart-all.html>. Frauendorfer, Elisabeth. "Scientific Illustrator." //Happy Diwali//. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. <http://www.magnussa.com/medicalillustrations.html>. 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