"I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea."
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist associated with confessional poetry. She is known for Ariel and for her novel The Bell Jar. Her writing is noted for its emotional intensity, formal control, and autobiographical force.