ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -On February 25, 1956, Sylvia Plath meets her future husband, Ted Hughes, at a party in Cambridge, UK. The two poets fell in love at first sight and married four months later. Plath was born in 1932, the daughter of an autocratic German father who taught biology and was a leading expert on bumblebees.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plath’s revealing confidential letters In 2017, a series of confidential letters from Plath to her psychiatrist, Dr. Ruth Barnhouse, came to light in which she alleged that Hughes was physically and psychologically abusive in the last years of their marriage.

Detailed explanation-3: -They were both ambitious, and hoped to become the leading poets of their generation. But what began as a Shakespearean “marriage of true minds” ended in tragedy. Hughes left Plath for another woman in 1962; suffering from depression, Plath took her own life in 1963. This excerpt picks up in happier times.

Detailed explanation-4: -Plath went on to study poetry at Cambridge University, where she met Ted Hughes, who was on his way to world fame as a poet. The two were married in 1956, and had two children-Nicholas and Frieda-but separated in 1962 after Mr.

Detailed explanation-5: -Hughes unraveled, she became distraught and wracked by self-doubt. In February 1963, soon after Mr. Hughes left her for his married lover, a fellow poet named Assia Wevill, Plath carefully laid out milk and bread for her sleeping children, put her head in the oven, and gassed herself.