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Why did Sylvia Plath write the poem, ‘My Mother’?
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Sylvia Plath wrote the poem “my mother” because she was a lesbian. In the poem, she describes her mother as a “wicked witch” who tried to kill her. She writes that she had a “crazy” mother who was “always drunk” and “always on the warpath.” She says that her mother was “crazy” and “abusive,” and that her mother was “a witch” who “put a spell on me.”