Death is one of the major themes of Sylvia Plath's poetry. Many of her poems are elaborate explorations of the concept of death. It was also one of her major preoccupations, as can be seen from the documentation of her life. She attempted suicide at various intervals throughout her life. However, the events in her life were not entirely responsible for each of her three attempts and eventual death. To the outsider her life seemed perfect but over the course of time she had numerous bouts of depression and breakdowns. Her state of mind during these times has been fairly well expressed in her work. Her poetry with its treatments of death and suicide give her readers a deeper insight on death. Her last poems,written right before she killed herself, give death a sort of cruel allure and her mental anguish is plain to see. It seem as if death is mor....

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