Posted on 03/23/2009 9:09:53 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Nicholas Hughes, the son of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, has killed himself at the age of 47. The couple's other child, Frieda Hughes, told the Times newspaper that her brother had been battling depression for some time. Hughes had been working as a professor in Alaska. His sister paid tribute to "a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him". Plath took her own life in 1963 when her two children were infants. The writer also had a history of depression and her novel, The Bell Jar, is one of the most acclaimed depictions of the disease. She gassed herself while Nicholas and Frieda lay in the room next door. Her suicide note was left pinned to the children's pram. Her death led to criticism of Plath's husband Ted Hughes, who had recently left the family for another woman.
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Morale of this story:
Poets should not marry other poets.
Sad. RIP.
Maybe he had the type of personality that made him think he would be the one who could help them. It's a corollary to the idea that women will marry the 'hell raiser', because she's sure she's the one who will calm him down. Then, after that relationship fails, she'll try it again, just SURE that it will work this time.
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