Sylvia Plath messages

Overview of Sylvia Plath's letters 1940 - 1963: In these correspondences, we reveal after more than 55 years new details about the life of Plath, the talented writer who explores gloom and intense emotion in her writings. What became her literary talent is the reality of her suffering from depression throughout her life, her loss of her father when she was a child, and her conflicting feelings towards her mother, who also suffered from the same illness. The deeper aspect of these emotions is linked to her relationship with her poet husband Ted Hughes, her reactions and feelings, the fantasy of discovering his romantic relationship with his mistress Asia Wefel, the repercussions of his abandonment of her and their two children, her transformation from denial to anger, then to surrender and sad brokenness, and ultimately to absolute despair that led to her suicide. However, in all these stages, she continued to write the letters she had been committed to since she was a ten-year-old girl, most of which are like daily reports to her mother, Orelia Plath, and she stops at the last letter, when she was in her thirties, to her psychiatrist a few days before her suicide. Quotes from Sylvia Plath's letters: "It is comforting to find someone who talks about thoughts of life and religion. I believe that spiritual companionship is very necessary in a world full of superficiality and few attractions." "I believe that the greatness of nature is a healing for the soul in one way or another. Seeing all the problems of the world, it seems comforting to think, as a kind of change, that this world is no more than dust particles in the vast, immense universe." "What terrifies me now is my feeling of returning to madness, paralysis of my feelings, constant fear and expecting the worst, defeatism and cowardice, mental hospital, brain surgeries." Published by Taqweem Publishing Number of pages: 542