He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times ...

The six Sylvia Plath poems in focus here are “Mushrooms,” “You’re,” “The Babysitters,” “The Applicant,” “Ariel,” and “Edge.” Sarah Ruden deftly distributes discussions of the poems into a succinct and ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...

Below, we’re taking a look at the prominent writers who changed culture irrevocably and brought the world of music along, clinging to the coattails of progress through prose and poetry in motion ...

I would, however, time travel back to the day I decided to read “The Bell Jar” by Sylvia Plath and tell myself not to ... I had read some of Plath’s poetry in my English class and really enjoyed it.

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks ... hold in popular culture—Plath was an unstable genius whose last burst of poetic productivity, the poems collected in Ariel (1965), drove ...

“We sometimes find flowers growing next to the road or ... have experienced situations of extreme suffering such as Sylvia Plath; poetry was the way, the lighthouse, to help her navigate her ...