The work of a phenomenal writer generates a powerful connection between their words and the reader. This is factual from the poetry of Sylvia Plath. It contains universal and timeless themes of depression and death that, in these dark days, many people can relate to. Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet whose oppressive life led to her story to be told. She wrote many amazing poems, such as “Cut,” “Among the Narcissi,” and “A Birthday Present,” which narrate and showcase her struggle to break free from the repressed world in which she subsisted, a world in which many still live. Today. Sylvia Plath's poetry tells both her distinct, individual story and the universal story of a woman seeking a way out of her depressed state of mind. Sylvia Plath lived a good, but depressed life. She was born October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, to Aurelia and Otto Plath. Sylvia grew up with her brother in an ordinary house, under the guidance of a strict father. His childhood was happy, until in 1940, a week and a half after his eighth birthday, his father died of complications from his untreated diabetes. This led young Sylvia to lose the faith she could never regain and fueled her desire to write poetry and stories at the age of ten. During her teenage years she won numerous awards and honors for her writing, and at eighteen she received a scholarship to Smith College. It was at this time that the symptoms of her severe depression began to appear in Plath. In 1953, she attempted suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was hospitalized and given electroshock therapy, and she fictionalized her experiences in her novel The Bell Jar. In 1955, Plath moved to Cambridge, England on a scholarship and met Ted Hughes and the English poet... middle of paper... er the inner despair for happiness that many people seek. In the second and third lines of the play, Plath introduces the protagonist, “Percy reclines, in his blue pea coat, among the daffodils” and his illness, “He is recovering from something in his lung. » She then tells how he comes to the daffodil field to be happy, and in lines seven and eight, why he came. “There’s a dignity in that; there is a formality-/The bright flowers like bandages, and the man mends them. In this she says that it is respectful to come and die in the field, because that is where he is happy and the flowers can heal him, as the simile shows, they are "lively like bandages". The last stanza ends Percy’s story with: “And the octogenarian loves the little flocks./He is quite blue; the terrible wind tries to breathe./The daffodils look up like children, quickly and whitely.”