Her petition explained her case this way:. A few years ago I visited Heptonstall with my mother to visit the grave of the troubled poet, Sylvia Plath, wife of poet laureate Ted Hughes. We did not stay long as the last bus down the steep hill to Hebdon Bridge was due, yet I felt profoundly spiritual in this place. Larkin called her the 'Horror Poet'. Tragically Assia also committed suicide and killed their daughter too in the same manner as Sylvia Plath.
Hughes dedicated Crow - his bleak collection to them. The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. I have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses And my history to the anaesthetist and my body to surgeons.
From Tulips. The couple separated after Plath discovered Hughes was having an affair. In , after a life struggling with clinical depression, Plath took her own life at her home in Primrose Hill, London. She was years-old. Sylvia Plath's writing was first published when she was eight-years-old. She would continue to write, despite struggling with clinical depression, before taking her own life aged While she was first published aged eight, that year also brought tragedy for Plath, as her father Otto died.
As a student, she attained a scholarship to Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, where she continued to pursue her passion for the written word. She met poet Ted Hughes in February after admiring his work and by June of that year they were married. Her collections of poetry, Collosus and other Poems, as well as Ariel, are credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry.
Her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar has sold more than three million copies worldwide and is still read to this day. The book was originally published under a pseudonym and mirrored Plath's own mental health struggles in the years before she died. She was clinically depressed for most of her adult life and underwent electro-convulsive therapy numerous times, before she took her own life in , aged just At the time she was living in Primrose Hill, London, and had separated from Hughes after discovering he was having an affair.
Hughes, who later became the Poet Laureate, would have to repair Plath's grave in Heptonstall on numerous occasions after his surname was repeatedly scratched from her gravestone. An inscription on the headstone reads: 'Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.
Argos AO. Privacy Policy Feedback. Friday, Nov 12th 5-Day Forecast. Church allows fan of poet Sylvia Plath to be buried alongside her 'literary heroine' in Yorkshire graveyard miles from her home in 'possibly unique' case Church judge allows woman to be buried in the same churchyard as Sylvia Plath Unnamed woman lives miles from the grave in Heptonstall, West Yorkshire But she has won approval as she said she felt 'profoundly spiritual,' after a visit By Luke May For Mailonline Published: GMT, 3 March Updated: GMT, 3 March e-mail 11 shares.
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