'Cut' by Sylvia Plath
This is a poem which was written by Sylvia Plath. Plath was born during the Great Depression on October 27, 1932 at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood. Her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, was a first-generation American of Austrian descent, and her father Otto Emile Plath was from Grabow, Germany. In 1950, Plath attended Smith College and excelled academically. Once she graduated,with highest honours,she obtained a Fulbright scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge where she continued actively writing poetry and publishing her work in the student newspaper Varsity. There she would meet world acclaimed poet Ted Hughes and the couple would marry on June 16, 1956. They had two children. On 11 February 1963 Plath was found dead in the kitchen of her flat. She had commited suicide.
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