Word: sylvia
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Specter of Sylvia...
...specter of my teens was that Mysterious Upstart Sylvia Plath [June 10]. 1 was one of the also-rans who copped local awards and got published on everybody's amateur page, while Miss Plath carried off the big prizes. In college we were haunted by her, too, as she plunged into print in Mademoiselle and became a Seventeen fashion editor in their annual contest. Then she won a Fulbright. She had everything except an appreciation of life, even at its worst, and of her own possibilities...
ARIEL, by Sylvia Plath. Suicide ended the promising career of Poet Sylvia Plath in 1963. In these poems written during her last months, she dipped her pen in old wounds and secret bile and scribbled a volume of violent verse that constitutes a major contribution to the poetry of abreaction...
...life was more difficult than poetry. In the fall of 1962, just after the birth of her son Nicholas, she and Hughes separated permanently. Alone with the children in Devon, Sylvia hurled herself into a heroic but foolhardy attempt to probe her deepest problems with the point...
...months, first in Devon and later in London, Sylvia wrote without letup. By the end of January 1963, her nerves were a shirt of nettles. On Feb. 4 she arrived at a friend's house, lugging the children. "She was in an inferno," the friend remembers. "Depression is not the word." For six days she let herself be looked after, but on Feb. 10 she went back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate...