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Sylvia Plath [/plæθ/] ( October 27, 1932- February 11, 1963 ) „ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.“ - Mad.

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1 Sylvia Plath [/plæθ/] ( October 27, 1932- February 11, 1963 ) „ I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.“ - Mad Girl's Love Song

2 Life (1) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer Bradford Senior High School Smith College Fulbright scholarship to study at Newnham College, Cambridge University

3 Life (2) in childhood lived in Boston, Winthrop and Wellesley, MA suffered from depression 1956- marriage with the English poet Ted Hughes had two children Frieda and Nicholas

4 Writing Prose and novel: 1963 - The Bell Jar under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas„ 1975 - Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 Poetry: 1960 - The Colossus and Other Poems 1965 - Ariel 1971 - Crossing the Water, Winter Trees 1981 - The Collected Poems

5 Points of interest Awards: Glascock Prize (1955) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1982) The Collected Poems Sylvia's mother was approximately 21 years younger than her husband loved a Welsh poet Dylan Thomas "more than life itself" “Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

6 Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sylvia-plath Quotes: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sylvia_plath.html#Y4ZVshhb8 Xvoex4H.99 http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sylvia_plath.html#Y4ZVshhb8 Xvoex4H.99 http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4379.Sylvia_Plath Images: http://41.media.tumblr.com/db2a0d0e8be0c8b36cacd303e6ba700d/tumblr_ myns30AwD11rvwnumo1_500.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/db2a0d0e8be0c8b36cacd303e6ba700d/tumblr_ myns30AwD11rvwnumo1_500.jpg http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/hughesplath.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Sylvia_plath.jpg http://www.literaryladiesguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sylvia- plath-1.jpg http://www.literaryladiesguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/sylvia- plath-1.jpg http://www.amazon.com/Ariel-Facsimile-Manuscript-Reinstating- Arrangement/dp/0060732601/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 http://www.amazon.com/Ariel-Facsimile-Manuscript-Reinstating- Arrangement/dp/0060732601/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515JNXDM1QL.jpg http://writingwomendotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/plathhughes2013.j pg http://writingwomendotorg.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/plathhughes2013.j pg

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