By the mid-20th century, the dominance of postmodernist literature began to decline with the emergence of contemporary poets, who brought with them a new kind of perspective within of their poetry. These poets, especially those who wrote confessional poetry, grounded their poetry in a single unified voice that accentuated intimate human topics such as death, sexuality, and family. An important contributor to contemporary and confessional poetry was Sylvia Plath, who used personal aspects of her life in her style of confessional poetry. Plath suffered from deep depression that drove her to often write in a dark and melancholy style. This depression included two suicide attempts which he wrote about before he managed to commit suicide at the age of 30. An important aspect of Plath's poetry was the distinctive development of the speaker, who, in her poem "Gigolo", for example, clearly and vividly conveyed experiences. Through her poetry, Plath sought freedom from society and her internal sense of entrapment. While some critics question Plath's intense incorporation of grief more than confession into many of her poems, few can doubt that Plath's morbid yet intensely personal style contributed to the rise of confessional poetry as a genre. in all areas of human life they no longer had precedence. The authors of this time, who ardently resented the suppression of freedom, gave birth to the contemporary poetic movement. This movement became a “series of attempts to reinterpret the relationship of man's inner world to the perceptual universe” (Malkoff 3). This reinterpretation led to poetry that focuses on the destruction of man's individual ego and focuses on perceived objects and situations. Th...... middle of paper....... 10:42. APA. American Psychological Association, November 2003. Web. 03 April 2011. Butscher, Edward. Sylvia Plath: woman and work. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1977. Print.Hamilton, Ian. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994. Print.Kirk, Connie Ann. Sylvia Plath: a biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. Print. Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. "Psychic Landscapes of Sylvia Plath." English Studies 71.6 (1990): 509-22. Gale database. The Gale Group, 1999. Web. March 13, 2011. Malkoff, Karl. Crowell's handbook of contemporary American poetry. New York: Crowell, 1973. Print.Stevenson, Anne. Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. Print.Uroff, M.D. “Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry: A Reconsideration.” Iowa Review 8.1 (1977): 104-15. Gale database. The Gale Group, 1999. Web. March 13. 2011.