... straight A's all through high school and went on to attend Smith College, an all girls school in North Hampton, Massachusetts (Newman 15). She was an excellent writer all through college especially in creative writing. A while after, she met her husband Ted Hughes and had one miscarriage and gave birth to ... of 1963 Sylvia Plath committed suicide by consuming sleeping pills and gas inhalation. The poem "Mirror- is written from a mirror's perspective, which at first she describes it as being truthful and honest. In the poem it states "most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It...

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... and white. (1-4) In this poem it seems Plath is frantically jabbing at who her father might have been, at one point she even refers to him as a God: Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one Gray toe Big as a Frisco Seal And a head in the freakish Atlantic Where it pours ... as her father had some of the physical characteristics that Hitler had. For example the neatly trimmed mustache is the same style, the bright blue eye is stereotypical when someone thinks of Hitler's idealistic Pure-Aryan Germany, the population being, all blonde haired and blue eyed people, "And your n...

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• Grade Level: High School