Joey Saves The Day!: Facts about Sylvia Plath

Learn some quick facts about

Sylvia Plath.

This week’s famous poet is Sylvia Plath. Last week’s famous poet was William Shakespeare.

Sylvia Plath was a famous poet and author. She wrote over four hundred poems. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents’ names are Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober. She had one sibling.

Continue reading to find out more about Sylvia Plath.

Here is a list of some poems by Sylvia Plath:

April Aubade
Cinderella
Morning Song
Heavy Woman
Frog Autumn
April 18
Elm
Lorelei
Kindness
Barren Woman

Parents/caretakers be sure poems are child-friendly before reading them to your child/children.

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Quick facts about Sylvia Plath:

1. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. She died on February 11, 1963 in London, England. She was thirty years old. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning. She is buried at St. Thomas A. Beckett Churchyard, Heptonstall, England.

2. Sylvia Plath was not only a poet; she also wrote two books. The books are titled:

The Bell Jar
It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit and other stories

3. The following is one of Sylvia Plath’s poems:

You’re

Clownlike, happiest on your hands,

Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,

Gilled like a fish. A common-sense

Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.

Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,

Trawling your dark as owls do.

Mute as a turnip from the Fourth

Of July to All Fool’s Day,

O high-riser, my little loaf.

Vague as fog and looked for like mail.

Farther off than Australia.

Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.

Snug as a bud and at home

Like a sprat in a pickle jug.

A creel of eels, all ripples.

Jumpy as a Mexican bean.

Right, like a well-done sum.

A clean slate, with your own face on.

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4. In 1941, Sylvia Plath’s first poem was published in the Boston Herald. She was eight years old.

Here is the poem:

"Hear the crickets chirping | in the dewy grass. Bright little fireflies | twinkle as they pass."

5. Sylvia Plath was educated at Smith College in Massachusetts. She also studied at Newnham College in England.

6. Sylvia Plath had one sibling:

Warren Joseph Plath (1935-2021)

7. Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes. They had two children:

Frieda Rebecca Hughes (1960-)
Nicholas Farrar Hughes (1962-2009)

8. For most of Sylvia Plath’s adult life she suffered from severe mental illness. Her mental illness was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and other treatments.

9. Sylvia Plath’s mother had her take an IQ (intelligence quotient) test when she was twelve years old. She scored 160 on the test. Any score above 140 is considered a genius level.

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Books by Sylvia Plath and others:

The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems

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