The Parallel Lives of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath

<Tab/>"Any writer, any artist, I'm sure is obsessed with death, a prerequisite for life" -Anne Sexton
<Tab/>Throughout time artists have always been known as a bit eccentric. Because they are a thinking class, their minds expand a bit farther, a bit more abstractly, than what most would consider the "norm." Thus, their opinion on certain things may seem a little strange to the average onlooker. One area where artists' ideas have been identified as especially strange is where death is concerned. This is no different for those artists whose craft is that of the literary arts. For centuries writers have written about their own ideas, and obsession pertaining to death. Poets in particular have always seemed to be especially enamored with this theme. Though most have entertained their strange morbid obsessions and still carried about their lives, some harbor fixations so strong, that it proves stronger than they, consuming them entirely. Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton are perfect examples of this type of tragedy. …