I close my eyes and the whole world dies [...] - Sylvia Plath -

Carol Anne McGowan ~ Mad Girl's Love Song

Sylvia Plath suffered throughout her adult life from a severe form of recurring depression interspersed with periods of intense vitality.

She died by suicide at the age of thirty, taking her own life: around 4:30 in the morning, she sealed the doors and windows of the kitchen and placed her head in the gas oven, not before preparing bread, butter, and two cups of milk and opening the window of her children's room...