Sylvia Plath, remembered for her confessional poetry and her novel The Bell Jar, was not buried in her native America. Rather, her grave is in a small Yorkshire village in which she never lived. The reason for this is that her estranged husband, fellow poet Ted Hughes, buried her near his hometown of Mytholmroyd. The epitaph he chose, “Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted,” can be seen as a metaphor for Plath’s depression and possible bipolar disorder. The controversial relationship between the couple is the reason…
