Sad news - Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughe's son kills himself :(

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Depression is such a horrible thing

buggeration... Hughes's?

Hughes'

That's awful. Poor Frieda.

How very sad

I know, it's awful, poor man. He really seemed to have made his own life and broken free of it all - but, anyone can get terrible depression and become suicidal.

I am very sorry for Frieda too.

Oh, how sad!

The woman their father left Sylvia for also killed herself, but she took her daughter, Nicholas and Frieda's half-sister, with her.

I didn't know that, expat. How sad.

Poor Frieda

It's very sad.

Mad Girl's Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)"

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia's poem about three women - the part where she holds her new son. God, that's my favourite piece of writing ever I think.

So sad to think that was probably written about this man as a baby, and now he's killed himself too

Saddened by this

And what a painful observation TsarChasm.

Here is my son.
His wide eye is that general, flat blue.
He is turning to me like a little, blind, bright plant.
One cry. It is the hook I hang on.
And I am a river of milk.
I am a warm hill.

? TsarChasm

Poor poor man.

That last verse is heart-breaking mitch.

oh how much sadness in one family.

Truly heartbreaking. Severe depression is devastating.

Tragic family

how very sad for Frieda.

A lifetime of demons unvanquished.

How sad

Very hard for his family.

Here we are Mitchy. Thanks for finding that!

This is the particular verse I've always loved but I like the whole poem (especially First Voice in it) it's too long to quote in full though.

'What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?
I have never seen a thing so clear.
His lids are like the lilac-flower
And soft as a moth, his breath.
I shall not let go.
There is no guile or warp in him. May he keep so'

I don't know of course whether that was about her son, but you never know. It's certainly always made me think of all my dc when they were born, really.

I am saddened to hear about this. I guess some families are blighted horribly by this illness through more than one generation

Before today I knew nothing of Plath, Hughes and Wevill.
I came across the news that Plath's and Hughes son Nicholas had killed himself accidentally on google news.
I googled about them...
I was horrified that Plath killed herself when she had two babies with her to live for.
I was angry with Hughes for his unfaithfulness/ being a cheating wank.
I was very angry with Wevill killing her daughter.

IMO none of them put their children first and none of them deserve to be eulogised. They deserve disapproval at very least....