This article examines the last 6 months of Plath’s poety, revealing a suicidal malaise. Associating the results to the lives of Cesar Pavese & the case study of Natalie, a Terman-Shneidman subject of the intellectually gifted, the study shows a unity thema that facilitates the process of death. The poems reveal such themes as unbearable pain, loss & abandonment that likely contributed significantly to death becoming the only solution. (41 refs.)