After her suicide attempt she began to write at a fast and furious pace. Her work became darker as her life went on. During her senior year she excelled and received various prizes, and graduated summa cum laude. In 1955, having been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, she began two years at Cambridge University. She met Ted Hughes, a British poet, there and they married on June 16, 1956. Their marriage was very happy and ideal at first. Her home and husband then became her top priorities, she had felt she found her soul mate in Ted. They moved to England and that's where Sylvia spent most of the rest of her life.
In 1959 she studied with Robert Lowell, and was influenced greatly by him. She started spending much time with Anne Sexton while she was going to Robert Lowell's seminars at Boston University. Anne was a very close friend of Sylvia's, they often turned to each other when they needed comforting, and much of their conversations throughout their friendship was of death, they were both in a way fascinated with the idea of suicide. Anne wrote many poems about Plath after her suicide, and ten years after Sylvia, she herself committed suicide.
In 1960 her first book of poems, The Colossus, was published, it showed her incredible talent, but was far more conventional than those that followed. The same year, her first child was born, a daughter they named Frieda. Sylvia had a miscarriage the next year, and then in January 1962 she had her second child, a boy whom was named Nicholas. That year was an eventful one for Sylvia, most of which were for the worst. In July she found out of Ted's affair with Assia Wevill, and in September Ted and Sylvia separated. In the following months, she would write many poems, around 26 of which were published in her second book of poetry Ariel, which was published in 1965. .
Ted had left her broke, with two children, she then moved to a flat in London. During times of hardship she wrote heavily at 4 o"clock in the morning, inspired by the stillness of the morning and the silence of the city.
