The 10 most Influential Poets in History - My poetic side
Eliot, who had a great literary friendship with Pound, inspired many poets as well. He is regarded as one of the major poets of the 20th century and has ...
Sylvia Plath
Most of us are inspired by someone when it comes to our job, or any hobbies we engage in. There is always an individual that we look up to, who inspired us to get involved in something, or whom we have studied to get where we are. So, have you ever wondered who inspired some of the most famous poets? What poets did <anchor>Sylvia Plath</anchor> study? Where did Jane Austen get her inspiration? Did Allen Ginsberg adopt techniques or styles used from any former poets? We decided to find the answers to these questions.
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- [Pablo Neruda](//mypoeticside.com/poets/pablo-neruda-poems)
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- [William Wordsworth](//mypoeticside.com/poets/william-wordsworth-poems)
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- [William Shakespeare](//mypoeticside.com/poets/william-shakespeare-poems)
- [Dylan Thomas](//mypoeticside.com/poets/dylan-thomas-poems)
- [Charles Bukowski](//mypoeticside.com/poets/charles-bukowski-poems)
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- [Wilfred Owen](//mypoeticside.com/poets/wilfred-owen-poems)
- [Rabindranath Tagore](//mypoeticside.com/poets/rabindranath-tagore-poems)
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# Sylvia Plath

"Kiss me, and you will see how important I am"

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## Sylvia Plath Poems

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- [A Birthday Present](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22348)
- [A Lesson In Vengeance](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22354)
- [A Life](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22352)
- [A Sorcerer Bids FarewellTo Seem](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22310)
- [A Winter Ship](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22309)
- [Above The Oxbow](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22335)
- [Admonition](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22334)
- [Aftermath](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22441)
- [Alicante Lullaby](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22333)
- [All The Dead Dears](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22332)
- [Among the Narcissi](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22439)
- [An Appearance](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22398)
- [Apprehensions](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22449)
- [April 18](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22403)
- [April Aubade](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22331)
- [Aquatic Nocturne](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22330)
- [Ariel](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22450)
- [Balloons](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22438)
- [Barren Woman](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22308)
- [Berck-Plage](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22417)
- [Bitter Strawberries](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22307)
- [Black Pine Tree In An Orange Light](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22306)
- [Black Rook in Rainy Weather](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22422)
- [Blackberrying](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22425)
- [Blue Moles](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22304)
- [Bluebeard](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22305)
- [Brasilia](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22303)
- [Bucolics](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22407)
- [Burning The Letters](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22302)
- [By Candlelight](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22414)
- [Candles](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22301)
- [Channel Crossing](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22300)
- [Child](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22451)
- [Child's Park Stones](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22298)
- [Childless Woman](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22299)
- [Cinderella](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22421)
- [Contusion](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22372)
- [Conversation Among the Ruins](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22452)
- [Crossing The Water](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22360)
- [Crystal Gazer](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22297)
- [Cut](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22437)
- [Daddy](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22455)
- [Dark House](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22296)
- [Dark Wood, Dark Water](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22295)
- [Death & Co.](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22359)
- [Denouement Villanelle](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22341)
- [Departure](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22294)
- [Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22386)
- [Dirge For A Joker](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22293)
- [Doom Of Exiles](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22292)
- [Doomsday](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22291)
- [Edge](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22436)
- [Electra on Azalea Path](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22383)
- [Elm](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22435)
- [Event](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22288)
- [Face Lift](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22344)
- [Family Reunion](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22287)
- [Faun](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22377)
- [Female Author](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22285)
- [Fever 103°](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22358)
- [Fiesta Melons](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22434)
- [Finisterre](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22284)
- [Firesong](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22283)
- [Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22282)
- [For A Fatherless Son](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22281)
- [Frog Autumn](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22340)
- [Full Fathom Five](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22378)
- [Getting There](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22349)
- [Gigolo](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22381)
- [Goatsucker](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22382)
- [Gold Mouths Cry](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22280)
- [Gulliver](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22279)
- [Hardcastle Crags](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22278)
- [Heavy Woman](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22277)
- [I Am Vertical](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22384)
- [I Want, I Want](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22239)
- [In Plaster](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22367)
- [Incommunicado](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22276)
- [Insomniac](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22457)
- [Jilted](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22389)
- [Kindness](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22433)
- [Lady Lazarus](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22432)
- [Lament](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22275)
- [Landowners](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22362)
- [Last Words](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22363)
- [Leaving Early](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22353)
- [Lesbos](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22364)
- [Letter in November](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22453)
- [Letter To A Purist](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22274)
- [Little Fugue](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22273)
- [Lorelei](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22366)
- [Love Is A Parallax](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22339)
- [Love Letter](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22427)
- [Lyonnesse](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22343)
- [Mad Girl's Love Song](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22369)
- [Maenad](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22272)
- [Magi](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22271)
- [Magnolia Shoals](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22270)
- [Man In Black](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22269)
- [Mary's Song](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22346)
- [Maudlin](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22268)
- [Medallion](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22267)
- [Medusa](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22440)
- [Metaphors](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22347)
- [Mirror](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22458)
- [Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22266)
- [Monologue At 3 AM](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22355)
- [Moonrise](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22265)
- [Morning Song](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22447)
- [Mushrooms](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22410)
- [Mussel Hunter At Rock Harbor](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22264)
- [Mystic](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22413)
- [Natural History](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22263)
- [Never Try to Trick Me with a Kiss](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22416)
- [New Year On Dartmoor](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22262)
- [Nick and the Candlestick](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22446)
- [Night Shift](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22356)
- [Notes To A Neophyte](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22261)
- [Ode For Ted](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22260)
- [Old Ladies' Home](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22259)
- [On Deck](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22258)
- [On Looking Into The Eyes Of A Demon Lover](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22357)
- [Ouija](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22257)
- [Owl](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22256)
- [Paralytic](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22405)
- [Parliament Hill Fields](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22255)
- [Perseus](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22396)
- [Pheasant](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22338)
- [Poems, Potatoes](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22408)
- [Point Shirley](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22254)
- [Polly's Tree](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22445)
- [Poppies In July](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22342)
- [Poppies in October](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22444)
- [Private Ground](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22253)
- [Prologue To Spring](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22252)
- [Prospect](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22397)
- [Purdah](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22393)
- [Pursuit](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22406)
- [Recantation](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22251)
- [Resolve](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22404)
- [Rhyme](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22250)
- [Sculptor](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22402)
- [Sheep in Fog](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22456)
- [Sleep in the Mojave Desert](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22365)
- [Sleepers](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22399)
- [Snakecharmer](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22442)
- [Soliloquy of the Solipsist](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22249)
- [Song For A Summer's Day](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22246)
- [Sonnet : To Eva](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22248)
- [Sonnet to Satan](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22247)
- [Southern Sunrise](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22394)
- [Sow](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22376)
- [Spinster](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22426)
- [Stillborn](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22420)
- [Stings](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22419)
- [Strumpet Song](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22418)
- [Suicide Off Egg Rock](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22245)
- [Tale of a Tub](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22415)
- [Terminal](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22244)
- [Thalidomide](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22243)
- [The Applicant](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22412)
- [The Arrival of the Bee Box](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22411)
- [The Babysitters](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22329)
- [The Beast](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22328)
- [The Bee Meeting](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22392)
- [The Beekeeper's Daughter](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22327)
- [The Bull of Bendylaw](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22374)
- [The Burnt-out Spa](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22326)
- [The Colossus](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22373)
- [The Companionable Ills](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22325)
- [The Couriers](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22371)
- [The Dead](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22345)
- [The Death Of Myth-Making](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22324)
- [The Disquieting Muses](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22431)
- [The Everlasting Monday](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22323)
- [The Eye-Mote](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22368)
- [The Fearful](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22286)
- [The Ghost's Leavetaking](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22322)
- [The Glutton](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22321)
- [The Goring](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22320)
- [The Great Carbuncle](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22319)
- [The Hanging Man](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22318)
- [The Hermit At Outermost House](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22317)
- [The Manor Garden](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22316)
- [The Moon and the Yew tree](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22423)
- [The Munich Mannequins](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22443)
- [The Night Dances](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22390)
- [The Other](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22351)
- [The Other Two](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22388)
- [The Queen's Complaint](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22387)
- [The Ravaged Face](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22315)
- [The Rival](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22385)
- [The Shrike](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22314)
- [The Sleepers](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22336)
- [The Stones](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22313)
- [The Surgeon At 2 A.M.](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22312)
- [The Swarm](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22380)
- [The Thin People](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22379)
- [The Times Are Tidy](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22337)
- [The Trial Of A Man](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22311)
- [Three Women](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22375)
- [To A Jilted Lover](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22289)
- [To Eva Descending The Stair](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22290)
- [Totem](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22391)
- [Touch-and-Go](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22242)
- [Tulips](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22400)
- [Two Campers in Cloud Country](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22401)
- [Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22241)
- [Two Sisters of Persephone](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22409)
- [Two Views of a Cadaver Room](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22429)
- [Vanity Fair](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22350)
- [Verbal Calisthenics](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22240)
- [Virgin in a Tree](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22430)
- [Waking in Winter](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22238)
- [Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22237)
- [Whiteness I Remember](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22233)
- [Whitsun](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22232)
- [Who](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22236)
- [Widow](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22235)
- [Winter Landscape, With Rooks](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22361)
- [Winter Trees](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22454)
- [Wintering](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22370)
- [Witch Burning](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22234)
- [Words](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22424)
- [Words heard, by accident, over the phone](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22231)
- [Wuthering Heights](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22395)
- [Yaddo : The Grand Manor](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22230)
- [Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lillies](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22229)
- [Years](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22448)
- [You're](//mypoeticside.com/show-classic-poem-22428)

## Sylvia Plath Biography

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Perhaps one of the youngest poets, Sylvia Plath has shown us that it is not the duration of life that makes the quality of life, but the content of that life which makes it memorable or forgotten. Although she only lived to be thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has become one of the top 100 poets of our time with more than 400 poems. Her marriage to [Ted Hughes](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/ted-hughes-poems) (though only for a brief time) has helped in her placement among those writers which will be remembered. Tragically, the poet did not see the value in her work or life. One has to consider the impact which she would have had on the world today had she not committed suicide.

**Blackened Works**

Though love poems are a great part of Sylvia Plath’s poems when looking at her work from a collective vantage point, upon individual examination, one will see that there is a very definitive melancholy which comes forth as the dominant drive in her work. In her poem _Daddy_, reference is given to one of her suicide attempts and her disappointment in being saved from such an attempt.

![poem](https://mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/textimage/d106b14823545273f1e458ad6ec9788c.png)

This darkness seems to linger further in other poems which she wrote throughout her life. In comparison, one would be able to find similarities between [Emily Dickinson](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/emily-dickinson-poems) and Sylvia Plath. This is not to say that the two are the same in content, but that the overall sadness that lingers at the edge of their works is similar.

**Divinities Discounted**

It is quite obvious from poems such as Medusa that she did not hold much merit to God or to any religion (Christian or otherwise). Considering that Sylvia Plath is known for her love poems, this is quite interesting. Generally, love poems make some reference to God or a god in a positive light. However, Sylvia Plath has shown over and over in her works that if a reference is made to the divine, it is only done as a placeholder to support the remainder of the work. It is rather plausible that this sentiment was due to the death of her father as well as her failed marriage. Yet, one will never fully know the motivations behind the works or for his discarding of deities within her work, her life has been presented for the reader within her poems.

**Poems that come natural**

It has been stated that Sylvia Plath wrote a poem a day. Where this may or may not be true, one can see by the multitude of works that her education paid off in this regard. Filling the content of such works, there is a naturalistic tie in almost every poem. Whether the reference is a tree, a star, or water, there is an element of nature. It is true that most of these references are metaphorical and one would be well to look upon her works in more detail to see if there is a common theme for each of these elements.

From the poems which I have read of Sylvia Plath (and those are far few then the full scope of her over 400 works) I have seen that she seems to have an infatuation with the stars. Many times the stars are falling or in a state of digress. In a few poems a personification to herself can be seen in these stars. Overall, one will find that Sylvia Plath constantly personifies the elements of nature to herself. One of the best examples of this can be found in The Bee Meeting where she does not only personify herself but nearly everyone that is mentioned within the work.

![poem](https://mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/textimage/cfcec6372c91e25aabe64a323dfde638.png)

**An end to all things**

Overall, one will find that the poems of Sylvia Plath are very deep. The vocabulary which is used throughout the poems is that of a scholar and intellect. This is not to take away from other poets who chose to use more common vocabulary, but there is a level of sophistication which is found from these words. It is through the use of her very saturated metaphorical works as well as the transference of her intelligence to her works that her poems have become iconic.

Like many poets whose lives have ended before their time, Sylvia Plath’s poems have gained a level of dynamics which would not have been present should she have been alive. This is a tragic truth, but a truth nonetheless. Much like painters that are remembered after they are gone, so are the melancholy poets. Sylvia Plath’s poems show us the depths of a depressed soul, the mind of the intellectual, and the battle between will and responsibility.

Sylvia Plath succeeded in suicide in 1963 from gas poisoning. Prior to this successful attempt on her life she had attempted to end her life (one with the use of sleeping pills) and had been treated for such. Though her life was short, we have an enormous archive of poems from her to treasure.

## Photo & Video Gallery

- [Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the twentieth century.](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/6e00f1e.jpeg "Sylvia Plath was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the twentieth century.")
- [Plath in 1957
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1957](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/eae7526.jpeg "Plath in 1957 <br /> 1957")
- [Sylvia Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 in Boston, Massachutessets. She was an American poet, novelist and short story writer.](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/a30ccb3.jpeg "Sylvia Plath was born on October 27th, 1932 in Boston, Massachutessets. She was an American poet, novelist and short story writer.")
- [Sylvia Plath committed suicide, which many feel was a tragic waste of such a talent.](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/d85fa10.jpeg "Sylvia Plath committed suicide, which many feel was a tragic waste of such a talent.")
- [Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Yorkshire, England, 1956
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1956](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/507dde1.jpeg "Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Yorkshire, England, 1956 <br /> 1956")
- [Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Paris.](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/8f23d39.jpeg "Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in Paris.")
- [Sylvia Plath, novelist and poet, as a child. ](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/37901b5.jpeg "Sylvia Plath, novelist and poet, as a child. ")
- [Sylvia Plath with her son, Nicholas](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/be01a31.jpeg "Sylvia Plath with her son, Nicholas")
- [Sylvia Plath as a child with her mother, Aurelia](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/8fe3aae.jpeg "Sylvia Plath as a child with her mother, Aurelia")
- [Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, taken in 1960.
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1960](//mypoeticside.com/wp-content/uploads/gallery-images/1c541bf.jpeg "Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, taken in 1960.  <br /> 1960")
[This documentary explores the life of Sylvia Plath.](https://www.youtube.com/embed/wmamNSa3sP8 "This documentary explores the life of Sylvia Plath.")
[Sylvia Plath interviewed in 1962.](https://www.youtube.com/embed/g2lMsVpRh5c "Sylvia Plath interviewed in 1962.")
[Sylvia Plath reads "Daddy"](https://www.youtube.com/embed/6hHjctqSBwM "Sylvia Plath reads \"Daddy\"")
[Sylvia Plath reads Lady Lazarus](https://www.youtube.com/embed/esBLxyTFDxE "Sylvia Plath reads Lady Lazarus")
[The poet and novelist Sylvia Plath on England](https://www.youtube.com/embed/FddpG9mTS7M "The poet and novelist Sylvia Plath on England")
[The poet recites The Moon And The Yew Tree](https://www.youtube.com/embed/GNhzsoFOw14 "The poet recites The Moon And The Yew Tree")
[The American poet reads her composition Purdah. ](https://www.youtube.com/embed/vogTlyORCzk "The American poet reads her composition Purdah. ")
[American poet Sylvia Plath recites "The Disquieting Muses"](https://www.youtube.com/embed/qnyCyHmQz7Y "American poet Sylvia Plath recites \"The Disquieting Muses\"")
[Biography of Sylvia Plath](https://www.youtube.com/embed/BgETS6FeKc4 "Biography of Sylvia Plath")
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## Influences

_On Sylvia Plath's poetry:_

- [Dylan Thomas](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/dylan-thomas-poems)
- [Robert Lowell](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/robert-lowell-poems)
- [Stevie Smith](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/stevie-smith-poems)
- [Ted Hughes](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/ted-hughes-poems)
- [W.H. Auden](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/wh-auden-poems)
- [William Blake](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/william-blake-poems)
- [William Butler Yeats](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/william-butler-yeats-poems)
- [William Shakespeare](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/william-shakespeare-poems)

_Sylvia Plath influenced:_

- [Anne Sexton](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/anne-sexton-poems)
- [Ted Hughes](https://mypoeticside.com/poets/ted-hughes-poems)

## WordCloud

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