Finished the bio.
It all ended badly, Plath gassed herself but sealed the doors so her two children wouldnt die too, but nearly killed her downstairs neighbour as well (he was affected by the gas)
Then six years later, her husbands lover/mistress killed herself too with her four year old daughter she had with him. Gas again?
Ted Hughes admitted he had a demon. He seeemed strangely detached from it all. His son hanged himself in 2009. Hughes died of cancer. His only daughter whom he doted on survived.
Sylvia Plaths most famous poem was 'Daddy' with images of the holocaust, but the most personal was Lady Lazarus about her suicide attempts. Of course Lady Lazarus references Lazarus in the Bible, who Jesus famously resurrected from the tomb.
Although Sylvia grew up Unitarian I think she leaned toward the Anglican church just for her daughters sake. I have an inkling that many suicide attempts try to get rid of demons by killing the body and hoping the soul will be free after that. But demons are merciless when it comes to inhabiting bodies, they will use it and then spit it out.
Demons love fame, they seem to thrive on it and use any means to get it. As for the poems..they live on I guess. A doco once said Sylvia had a voice that needed to be heard and she wrote because it couldnt be still.
Her only novel The Bell Jar now has sold millions of copies. If youve seen or read 'The Devil Wears Prada' it is similar in tone to that in which a young ingenue goes to New York City for an internship in a fashion magazine, and find out the glitzy life isnt all that.
People ask why Plath killed herself , the hypothesis in Red Comet is that she knew she was mentally ill and didnt want to go in to the public hospital and face the treatment there, particularly electroshock treatment again at the time, it was all they had. Her GP had booked her in for a pyshicatric hospital the following day but beds were short and it didnt happen.
What usually happens in a crisis is a team of nurses stay with patient round the clock and watch her (called suicide watch) to make sure the patient is alright. Usually this distracts the suicidal person from killing themselves, cos they mostly attempt when they are isolated and nobody else is around to look after them.
It all ended badly, Plath gassed herself but sealed the doors so her two children wouldnt die too, but nearly killed her downstairs neighbour as well (he was affected by the gas)
Then six years later, her husbands lover/mistress killed herself too with her four year old daughter she had with him. Gas again?
Ted Hughes admitted he had a demon. He seeemed strangely detached from it all. His son hanged himself in 2009. Hughes died of cancer. His only daughter whom he doted on survived.
Sylvia Plaths most famous poem was 'Daddy' with images of the holocaust, but the most personal was Lady Lazarus about her suicide attempts. Of course Lady Lazarus references Lazarus in the Bible, who Jesus famously resurrected from the tomb.
Although Sylvia grew up Unitarian I think she leaned toward the Anglican church just for her daughters sake. I have an inkling that many suicide attempts try to get rid of demons by killing the body and hoping the soul will be free after that. But demons are merciless when it comes to inhabiting bodies, they will use it and then spit it out.
Demons love fame, they seem to thrive on it and use any means to get it. As for the poems..they live on I guess. A doco once said Sylvia had a voice that needed to be heard and she wrote because it couldnt be still.
Her only novel The Bell Jar now has sold millions of copies. If youve seen or read 'The Devil Wears Prada' it is similar in tone to that in which a young ingenue goes to New York City for an internship in a fashion magazine, and find out the glitzy life isnt all that.
People ask why Plath killed herself , the hypothesis in Red Comet is that she knew she was mentally ill and didnt want to go in to the public hospital and face the treatment there, particularly electroshock treatment again at the time, it was all they had. Her GP had booked her in for a pyshicatric hospital the following day but beds were short and it didnt happen.
What usually happens in a crisis is a team of nurses stay with patient round the clock and watch her (called suicide watch) to make sure the patient is alright. Usually this distracts the suicidal person from killing themselves, cos they mostly attempt when they are isolated and nobody else is around to look after them.
