@article{ref1,
title="Sylvia Plath: a protocol analysis of her last poems",
journal="Death studies",
year="1998",
author="Leenaars, A. A. and Wenckstern, Susanne",
volume="22",
number="7",
pages="615-635",
abstract="Personal documents have a significant place in psychological research. Suicide notes, diaries, novels, poems, and so on allow us to better understand the suicidal mind. The works of Sylvia Plath--a poet who killed herself at age 30--are prime examples for such protocol study. This article examines the last 6 months of Plath's poetry, revealing a suicidal malaise. Associating the results to the lives of Cesare Pavese and the case study of Natalie, a Terman-Shneidman subject of the intellectually gifted, the study shows a unit thema that facilitates the process of death. The poems reveal such themes as unbearable pain, loss, and abandonment that likely contributed significantly to death becoming the only solution.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0748-1187",
doi="10.1080/074811898201326",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/074811898201326"
}