Whether a fun game to ease into the day or learning about an interesting figure, like Junko Tabei, the Google Doodle is always a little treat.
Today’s Doodle is marking the 87th birthday of tragic poet Sylvia Plath – but just who was she and when did she die?
Here’s what you need to know…
Who was Sylvia Plath?
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and writer, famous for her intense and introspective writing.
Her works were a reflection of the tumultuous life she lived, living with bouts of manic depression.
She committed suicide at the age of 30 in 1962.
Her life was tragically short but her legacy has endured.
Her poetry, including The Colossus and Other Poems and Ariel and The Collected Poems, is still being taught around the world and winning her legions of fans.
Ariel and The Collected Poems earned her a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1981.
Younger generations might have heard of her first through her impact on modern pop culture icons, like Lana Del Rey who has cited her as an influence on her own work and who references in her a few of her song lyrics.
Her semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, was being turned into a movie by Kirsten Dunst but will now be a TV series starring Dakota Fanning.
What is today’s Google Doodle of Sylvia Plath?
Celebrating what would’ve been her 87th birthday today, 27 October, Google’s Doodle features a young woman writing out in a winter landscape.
The woman could be Sylvia Plath or any of the women who she inspired to create their own art thanks to her vulnerability and unflinching openness.
The Doodle is set on a bleak, wintry backdrop marking the fact that a lot of Plath’s work was tied to the season.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/27/sylvia-plath-subject-todays-google-doodle-10991028/
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