People s Love At First Sight By Sylvia Plath - 1567 Words

People dream of falling in love at first sight. Sylvia Plath, an American writer, experienced the desirable moment the first time she saw Ted Hughes, an English poet (Middlebrook). The romantic relationship between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath grew instantly. They both shared a love of writing, but yet their relationship began to go downhill five years after their marriage (Popova). The marriage between Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath was destructive because of Sylvia’s unstable mental health and Ted’s unfaithfulness, but it was also beneficial because of their strong writing relationship. Sylvia Plath, an American poet, was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts (â€Å"Sylvia Plath Biography†). When Sylvia was eight years old, she†¦show more content†¦The â€Å"Wild West† was one of the first poems he wrote that was published in his school magazine (â€Å"Ted Hughes Biography†). When Hughes entered college, he studied English, but th en changed to archeology and anthropology at Pembroke College. Even as an archeologist and anthropology major, Ted continued to wow people with his poetry (â€Å"Ted Hughes Biography†). When people read his poetry, it was like they â€Å"[entered] a world dominated by nature, especially by animals† (â€Å"Ted Hughes†). His love for animals led him to become a poet and inspired him to write The Hawk in the Rain in 1957 and Wolfwatching and Moortown Diary in 1989 (â€Å"Ted Hughes†). On February 26, 1956, Ted Hughes and other poets hosted a poetry party for the St. Botolph’s Review (Popova). Sylvia arrived at the party and was immediately drawn to the â€Å"‘big, dark, hunky boy,’† later known as Ted Hughes (Popova). Sylvia’s first words to Ted were quotes from poems that he had written and published. Despite the amount of drinks she had consumed, she remembered her first encounter with Ted (Popova). She recorded the first day they met and it is â€Å"now one of the most famous [encounters] in all literary history† (Popova). Four months after they met, they got married and had two kids named Frieda and Nicholas (â€Å"Sylvia Plath Biography†). The beginning years of their marriage were very successful and they both continued to write poetry (â€Å"Ted Hughes