The poem "Mad Girl's Love Song" highlights Sylvia Plath's struggle with depression and her mental illness. As a form of expression, Sylvia Plath wrote “Mad Girl's Love Song” in 1953, her final years of life. Six years after Plath's marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes, depression began to set in in her life. Hughes began seeing other women and not responding to Plath as her husband. According to the Poetry Foundation, “He let his writing express elemental forces and primal fears.” Plath's poetry slowly became more violent and intense. Many people like to blame Hughes for his mental illness. In 1953 Plath decided to end her life using her gas oven. After reading the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song" and doing some research on Plath, I found that the poem was very similar to Plath's personal life. The poem is basically about a young girl who fell in love and gave everything to a boy who never came back to love her. The girl fell into depression and convinced herself that she had made it all up. She still had hope that she and the boy could be happy one day, but that never happened and it drove her crazy. Perhaps the boy could have been Plath's husband, Hughes. Everything in the poem is so similar to her marriage to Hughes; the story makes the reader believe that the poem could be about Plath herself. Sylvia begins the poem with "I close my eyes and the whole world dies"; a line that is repeated throughout the poem to indicate his attempts to escape the world (Plath line 1). However, when she reopens her eyes, she discovers that she can no longer hide and that “everything is reborn” (Plath line 2). In the first stanza, lines 1-3 of the poem, we can already tell that the girl is uncomfortable... middle of paper... she will be put out during the winter but used again the following spring. Unlike the boy, the car would still be there to “roar again” (Plath line 17). According to the Academy of American Poets, “his work is distinguished by the intense pairing of his violent or disturbed images and his playful use of alliteration and rhyme.” “Mad Girl's Love Song” was clearly an example of Plath's intense work. Plath used repetition, personification, and imagery to make this poem very understandable and visual for the reader. Works Cited Plath, Sylvia. “Mad Girl Love Song.” Structure, sound and meaning of Perrine's literature. Ed. Thomas R. Arp and Greg Johnson. 11th ed. Wadsworth Cengage Learning 2012. 1003-1004. Print."Sylvia Plath." Foundation for Poetry. Foundation for Poetry. Network. April 19, 2014. "Sylvia Plath." Poet.org. Academy of American Poets. Network. April 21. 2014