Plath revealed her side of the relationship & her state of mind in her poems- especially Arial & her correspondance- Letters Home publshed by her mother
Plath= COnfessional Poet
Hughes Poetry= Largley Impersonal-Focused on world of nature & its creatures
1995- a dozen poems written for Assia Wevill
Hughes & Wevill started affair in 1962- Still married to Plath
Wevill=Suicide same way as Plath in 1969
Wevills death= 'inevitable'
"She had been on that track most of her life. But Assia's was avoidable. er death was utterly within her powe, and it was an outcome of her reactio to Sylvia"
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Context
1998= Birthday Letters
Began writing after Plaths suicide- took 25 yr to write
Plaths view was aleady familiar= Hughes the villan
Birthday Letters= attempat to adjust public record= Breaking the silence
To see it as the other side of the story or last word= too simple
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