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1955 1982 //The Collected Poems// Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Spouse(s) Ted Hughes Children Frieda and Nicholas Hughes Plath took her own life after she completely sealed the rooms between herself and her sleeping children with "wet towels and cloths." Plath then placed her head in the oven while the gas was turned on and the pilot light was not lit. The next day an inquiry ruled that her death was a suicide. Plath's gravestone in Heptonstall churchyard bears the inscription "Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted," drawn from the Bhagavad Gita. The gravestone has been repeatedly vandalized by some of Plath's supporters who have chiseled the name "Hughes" off it. This practice intensified following the suicide in 1969 of Assia Wevill, the woman for whom Ted Hughes left Plath, which led to claims Hughes had been abusive toward Plath. “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan’s men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you’d return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)” Type in the content of your page here.
 * Sylvia Plath **
 * Born ** October 27, 1932 ( 1932-10-27 ) Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
 * Died ** February 11, 1963 (aged 30) London, England, United Kingdom
 * Pen name ** Victoria Lucas
 * Occupation ** Poet, novelist, and short story writer
 * Nationality ** American Ethnicity Austrian, German
 * Education ** Cambridge University
 * Alma mater ** Smith College
 * Period ** 1960–1963
 * Genres ** Autobiography, children's literature, feminism, mental health, roman à clef
 * Literary movement ** Confessional poetry
 * Notable work(s) ** //The Bell Jar// and //Ariel//
 * Notable award(s) ** Fulbright scholarship
 * Glascock Prize**
 * Pulitzer Prize for Poetry**
 * The bell jar **
 * //The Bell Jar//** is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath's only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas" in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef, with the protagonist's descent into mental illness paralleling Plath's own experiences with what may have been either bipolar disorder or clinical depression. Plath committed suicide a month after its first publication.
 * Death **
 * Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath **