The “Sylvia Plath effect” (2001) is a psychological term referring to the strong correlation between poets and mental illness. After years of depression, electroshock therapy, and several suicide attempts, Sylvia Plaths visceral, emotionally raw poetry broke new ground for female poets, making her a feminist icon. Her infamous culinary denouement (she committed suicide in an oven) was a tragedy: https://read.rifflebooks/list/82297
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