The work of a phenomenal writer creates a powerful connection between her words and the reader. This is a fact in Sylvia Plath's poetry. It contains universal and timeless themes of depression and death that, in these dejected days, many people can identify with. Sylvia Plath was a confessional poet whose oppressive life led to her relatable story. He wrote many amazing poems, such as "cut", "Among the Narcissi" and "A Birthday Present" that tell and show his struggle to free himself from the repressed world he lived in, a world in which many continue to live. Today. Sylvia Plath's poetry tells both her distinct, individual story and the universal story of a woman seeking a way out of her depressed state of mind. Sylvia Plath lived a good, but depressed life. She was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts to Aurelia and Otto Plath. Sylvia grew up with her brother in a normal family, under a strict father. His childhood was happy, until in 1940, a week and a half after his eighth birthday, his father died due to complications from his untreated diabetes. This led to a loss of faith for young Sylvia that she would never be able to regain and fueled her desire to write poetry and short stories when she was ten. During his adolescence he won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, and at the age of eighteen he received a scholarship to Smith College. It was then that the symptoms of his severe depression began to emerge. In 1953 he attempted to take his own life by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. She was hospitalized and subjected to electroshock therapy and fictionalized her experiences in her novel, The Bell Jar. In 1955 Plath moved to Cambridge England on a scholarship and met Ted Hughes and the English poet... at the center of the card... that inner desperation for happiness that many people seek. In the second and third lines of the piece, Plath introduces the protagonist, "Percy bows, in his blue peacoat, among the daffodils," and his ailment, "He's recovering from something in his lung." Then he says how he comes to the daffodil field to be happy, and in lines seven and eight, why he came. “There is a dignity in this; there is a formality -/The flowers as vivid as bandages and the man who mends. In this he says that it is respectful to come to the field to die, because he is happy there and that the flowers can heal him, as can be seen in the simile they are "as vivid as bandages". The last stanza concludes Percy's story with: “And the octogenarian loves little flocks./It's quite blue; the terrible wind tempts its breath./The daffodils look up like children, fast and white.”