Content Warning: Suicide

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Elton as he explores the life and tragic end of Sylvia Plath, her work, her impact, and especially her book "Ariel", considered by many to be one of the greatest poetic works of the 20th century...and all while running into so many inexplicable bee coincidences. So, so many bees. Oh, and laughs, there's a couple of those too.

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SOURCES:

https://allpoetry.com/All-The-Dead-Dears\

Otto Plath

https://dbpedia.org/page/Otto_Plath

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/17/sylvia-plath-otto-father-files

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1464-5491.1995.tb00545.x#:~:text=2%20Her%20father%2C%20Dr%20Otto,of%20German%20and%20Polish%20parents.

Aurelia Plath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Plath#:~:text=Aurelia%20Plath%20was%20born%20in,Bachelor%20of%20Secretarial%20Sciences%20(B.S.S.)

Sylvia Plath

https://www.wnyc.org/story/full-bio-sylvia-plath/

https://lithub.com/on-sylvia-plath-and-the-many-shades-of-depression/

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/sylvia-plaths-suicide-note-death-knell-cry-help/

http://dublinbees.com/sylvia-plath-and-the-bees/#:~:text=She%20had%20taken%20up%20beekeeping,born%20there%20in%20January%201962.

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,913753,00.html

https://daily.jstor.org/sylvia-plaths-ariel-50-years-later/

https://theconversation.com/how-sylvia-plaths-secret-miscarriage-transforms-our-understanding-of-her-poetry-173813

https://archive.org/details/the-dedalus-book-of-literary-suicides-dead-letters-lachman-gary-z-lib.org/page/n131/mode/2up?view=theater&q=oven

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC539515/

https://www.geniuses.club/genius/sylvia#Collegeyearsanddepression

https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/literary-musings/sylvia-plaths-suicide-note-death-knell-cry-help/

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2020/1103/Red-Comet-is-the-biography-Sylvia-Plath-has-always-deserved

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/the-bell-jar/sylvia-plath-biography

https://historycollection.com/34-facts-that-make-us-fall-in-love-with-tragic-author-sylvia-plath/12/

https://www.notablebiographies.com/Pe-Pu/Plath-Sylvia.html

https://ssristories.org/sylvia-plath-maybe-it-was-just-the-drugs-mctaggart/

https://lithub.com/a-new-monumental-biography-shows-plath-as-a-woman-of-her-time/

https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/sylvia-plath

https://zigzageducation.co.uk/biography/timeline/plath

https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/14/archives/the-girl-who-tried-to-be-good.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Plath

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/12/sylvia-plath-s-ariel.html

https://literariness.org/2018/02/18/sylvia-plath-poetry-and-survival/#:~:text=Some%20critics%20have%20seen%20her,for%20her%20own%20inadequate%20marriage.

https://www.stylist.co.uk/people/sylvia-plath-the-life-of-a-tortured-poet/17027

https://www.academia.edu/33232495/What_were_the_significant_effects_of_Ted_Hughess_approach_to_the_editing_of_Sylvia_Plaths_Ariel_collection_of_poems_following_her_death

APOLOGIES SECTION: Elton would like to apologize to the following people, places and things: Bee keepers, the people of Germany, anyone with an authentic German accent, ghosts, Hillary Clinton, underground boxers, and aerial antennas.

A special thanks to Jenna Fischer and Diedrich Bader