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25 de ene. de 2022 · Her preface to Letters Home (1975) says Otto Plath emigrated from Prussia to the U.S. to escape compulsory military service and told her he would never bear arms. As an entomologist Otto had such reverence for life that he grieved when he stepped on ants, and forbade his wife and children to kill any bugs except mosquitoes and houseflies. [1]
11 de dic. de 2019 · Early Life . Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the first child of Otto and Aurelia Plath. Otto was a German-born entomologist (and the author of a book about bumblebees) and a professor of biology at Boston University, while Aurelia (nee Schober) was a second-generation American whose grandparents had emigrated from Austria.
29 de oct. de 2020 · But Clark’s research upends this: “Ernestine Plath died in September 1919 at the Oregon Hospital for the Insane.” Because Sylvia “‘so revered her father’s memory’” the information about her family history was kept from her, even after she recovered (Otto Plath, Sylvia’s father, died suddenly when she was 8 years old).
11 de dic. de 2019 · Aktualisiert am 11. Dezember 2019. Sylvia Plath (27. Oktober 1932 – 11. Februar 1963) war eine amerikanische Dichterin, Romanautorin und Autorin von Kurzgeschichten. Ihre bemerkenswertesten Erfolge erzielte sie im Genre der Bekenntnisdichtung, die oft ihre intensiven Emotionen und ihren Kampf gegen Depressionen widerspiegelte.
20 de jul. de 2018 · Il 5 novembre del 1940, Otto Plath, dopo aver affrontato l’amputazione di un piede e poi dell’intera gamba per un trascurato diabete, morì a causa di sopraggiunte complicazioni postoperatorie. L’evento turbò profondamente la piccola Sylvia , le venne a mancare una figura che non riuscì a ritrovare, né a sostituire e quella perdita, si fece trauma infantile psicologicamente mai risolto.
27 de oct. de 1999 · Sylvia Plath (1932–63) was an American poet and novelist whose best-known works explore the themes of alienation, death, and self-destruction. Her novel, The Bell Jar, is strongly autobiographical, and her later poems, such as ‘Daddy’ and ‘Lady Lazarus,’ show great power and pathos borne on flashes of incisive wit.
midst of her remembered happiness, then, Plath is acutely aware of what has been lost, and how she may regain it. The seascapes of her childhood memories are not simply past idylls in which happiness is preserved, they are psychological points on a route to reunion with Otto. Plath's poetic use of landscape has received considerable critical at-
