Abstract:
Sylvia Plath was one of the most outstanding poets of the 21st century. Even before her suicide ,
at the age of 30, she had many admirers and followers among cultural societies. In the
following years her works attracted many readers, who saw in her poems a poet’s attempts to
talk about depression, strong emotions and death. In a ‘’New York Times’’ book review Joyce
Carol Oats described Plath ‘’…as one of the most famous and controversial writers after the
world war, who wrote in English’’. Plath’s deeply autographical poems describe her rational
sadness, complicated marriage with British poet Ted Hughes, her unsolved conflict with parents,
herself and her views of conservative society.
Sylvia Plath’s life and poetry are quite similar. She wrote as she lived. In her poetry her whole
life could be read. In this paper both her life and her poetry book ”Colossus’’ will be discussed.
With her poems she gives us many characters and a variety of topics, like: motherhood, death,
love of nature, animals. In her poems she describes all the fears she used to have from
childhood to adulthood.