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Lady Lazarus. " Lady Lazarus " is a poem written by Sylvia Plath, originally included in Ariel, which was published in 1965, two years after her death by suicide. This poem is commonly used as an example of her writing style. It is considered one of Plath's best poems and has been subject to a plethora of literary criticism since its publication.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Sylvia's Death. " Sylvia’s Death " is a poem by American writer and poet Anne Sexton (1928–1974) written in 1963. "Sylvia's Death" was first seen within Sexton's short memoir “The Barfly Ought to Sing” for TriQuarterly magazine. The poem was also then included in her 1966 Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems Live or Die.
Sylvia Plath effect. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that poets are more susceptible to mental illness than other creative writers. The term was coined in 2001 by psychologist James C. Kaufman, and implications and possibilities for future research are discussed. [1] The effect is named after Sylvia Plath, who died by suicide at the ...
Yukio Mishima[ a] ( 三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), born Kimitake Hiraoka ( 平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake, 14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970), was a Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai. Mishima is considered one of the most important post-war stylists of the Japanese language.
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The Suicide's Soliloquy. "The Suicide's Soliloquy" is an unsigned poem, possibly written by Abraham Lincoln, [1] first published on August 25, 1838, in The Sangamo Journal, a four-page Whig newspaper in Springfield, Illinois . Shortly after Lincoln's assassination, one of Lincoln's personal friends, Joshua Speed, told William Herndon, Lincoln's ...
The book starts with Mehler Paperny's first suicide attempt, subsequent hospitalisation and care, and a description of the impact of her actions on her family. [3] It documents her extended involuntary time as a psychiatric inpatient. [3]