A definite head case, but I can feel her pain when I read her poems

Not exactly a comfortable read, Plath's voice is one of the clearest of the women poets.

She wrote with a savage economy that can be so brutally inciteful that it makes you wince.

Try "Daddy" or "Lady Lazarus" for example.

dullard voice for lonely highschool girls. her poems have no movement or soul. i'd rather read Sexton for a dose of the tortured chick.

Sylvia Plath was a genius. She wrote such great rhyme schemes and well imagery.

Poor, misunderstood and emotionally fragile wretch. The Ariel poems were quite good, and I recently read "The Bell Jar" and found that it's aged fairly well. A real "What If" personality in that she didn't live long enough to assume her promise as a poet. That horrible husband of hers, Ted Hughes, who also drove his first wife to suicide, was a villianous scum. May his dungheap of a soul rot in neverending damnation!!!

An expressive and sometimes startlingly original poet.But suicide is such a sad leave-taking.Her torment and insecurity are most clearly transmitted,i think,in her arresting,angry "Daddy".Incisive,heartfelt,scalding repetitions.Other poems are less disconcerting.I particularly like Morning Song- "Love set you going like a fat gold watch"-,Black Rook in Rainy Weather,and Crossing the Water- "This is the silence of astounded souls".Her widowed husband Ted Hughes' final collection of poems is about her,and probably his finest.(He should surely be listed here,along with Wordsworth,Dylan Thomas,Robert Browning,Heaney and others?)