Amazing Poets Are Able To Write Their Innermost Feelings

Amazing poets are able to write their innermost feelings even while going through their trying times. One writer that became famous through her writings is Sylvia Plath, who was able to write throughout her difficult life. She wrote of deep topics, such as depression and suicide, but also wrote of common experiences that most people go through. Sylvia Plath explains her thoughts of pregnancy through her poem â€Å"Metaphors.† She does this by using puzzling riddles and comparisons. Her words make a reader think about what she is writing. Sylvia Plath is a famous writer, with a background of depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, that led her to use imagery in her poems, helping her to relate to her readers. Sylvia Plath was an intelligent†¦show more content†¦In August 1953, Sylvia won a contest for the Mademoiselle magazine, also winning herself a job as the guest editor for the magazine. During her time in New York she became more depressed with signs of anxiety and bipolar disorder. One day, she tried to commit suicide by swallowing sleeping pills. She survived this attempt and was hospitalized, and while there received electroshock therapy. She later published her novel, The Bell Jar, which explains her breakdown and recovery. After fully recovering, she returned to Smith College and finished her degree. She then received a Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge University in England. While there, she met poet Ted Hughes, and they were married in June 1956. This was the happiest time of her life. She and her husband loved each other dearly, and soon they had two children. They moved back to New York and Sylvia devoted herself to writing poetry. Her poems became personal and dar k. She wrote of suicide, death, and the assumption that her father was a Nazi. At the end of 1962, Ted left Sylvia and their two children for another women. This drove Sylvia back into her depressed state. On February 11, 1963, she put out two mugs of milk and a plate of buttered bread for her two children and stuffed a towel under the kitchen door. She then committed suicide by inhaling gas from her kitchen stove (â€Å"Sylvia Plath Biography†). Many of Sylvia’s life was spent in depression, while she also had anxiety and bipolar disorder. SheShow MoreRelatedMirza Ghalib6891 Words   |  28 Pagesprolific prose-writer. Many notable writers proclaim that Ghalib could have garnered the same magnitude of fame only on the basis of his amazing prose. He gave a new and refreshing facet to the genre of prose-writing and thereby, is often referred to as â€Å"the father of prose-writing† in the realm of Urdu literature. He is the most written about of all the poets of Urdu literature , so much so that the study of his works has surprisingly been converted into a branch of exhaustive Urdu literature named