Sylvia Plath's writings are brilliant - seeming to connect knowledge with experience, past with present, desire with a harsh reality. A life-long battle with depression, a failed marriage, yet possessing the desire to be a loving wife and mother, led to what would would become reflected in several stages of her writings. From 1955 to 1959, Plath was a young poet and from 1960 to 1962 she was in her transitional stage, and from late 1962 to her suicide in 1963 Plath was in her late stages of poetry. The early stages of her writings served as experimentation, to find her own writing structure and style, whereas the transitional stage served as emotional revelation for Plath. During her transitional stage Plath realized that her life was not on the path of which she expected, this allowed her to move into her late stage of poetry. Within the late stage, Plath wrote with brutal honesty and she had mastered her own personal style and structure. As Plath moved further into her writing career, her writing developed and matured, she expressed the truth of her poetry instead of hiding behind metaphors, becoming a bolder more experienced writer. Although each stage brought its own ideas and different styles, Plath stuck with one central topic throughout her writing career, death. Poems revolved around the death of not only her father but it also consisted of the death within herself. This "death  within herself rooted from the high expectations Plath felt she had "failed  to reach. Plath's mother had set many expectations for her daughter, such as having a family. Plat also had this expectation for herself but she wished to do so while also maintaining her domestic free lifestyle. Plath did not want to loose her identity in the process of searching for love and fulfillment. Feeling that she had lost herself in the mists of others around her, Plath experienced emotional death. From 1955 to 1959, Plath's' early poetry was a result of her father's death. While attending Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar, Plath began her writing career. While this writing was amateur and experimental, the poems allowed Plath to express her feeling towards the death of her father. The metaphor of her writing allows avoidance of the direct confrontation of the many difficult subjects she faced, such as her feelings toward death. In her poem, "Temper of Time," Plath wrote, "An ill wind is stalking while the evil stars whir and all the gold apples go bad to the core" (as qtd in Butscher 37). She uses the metaphor of wind representing death and the apples each individual, to hide behind her own fears of death. Plath expressed hope within to resist the inevitability of mortality. "Lament," a poem about her father's death, was written out of admiration of her father. When describing her father Plath says, He counted the guns of God a brother, laughed at the ambush of angels' tongues, and scorned the tick of the falling weather. O ransack the four winds and find another man who can mangle the grin of kings: the sting of bees took away my father who scorned the tick of the fa