Sylvia Plath
- 1. by: Trisha Saylor Sylvia Plath
- 2. Plath’s Life Sylvia Plath was born in Boston on October 27, 1932. Her father Otto Plath died from diabetes when she was only eight years old. Soon after she graduated high school she published her poems in magazines and journals. During her time in Cambridge she meet her husband Ted Hughes. They married on June 5,1956. After she returned to England she gave birth to her two children. After her husband left her she wrote her most famous book Ariel. On February 11, 1963 she committed suicide using her gas oven.
- 3. Her poetry The Colossus (1960) Ariel (1965) Crossing the Water (1971) Winter Trees (1972)
- 4. Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. 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 In my Victorian nightgown. Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like balloons. Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
- 5. Response to Morning Song Morning Song by Sylvia Plath is about the birth of her child. She expresses her intense love for her child, and surprise that she could have created another life. She talks about how she tends to her child without hesitation at any hour of the night. This also shows her love for her child. She is focused on being a mother and the baby is her life.