英国桂冠诗人泰德·休斯由于其前妻西尔维亚.普拉斯的死而屡受抨击。1998年,休斯在《生日信札》中终于袒露心扉,对普拉斯倾诉了郁积几十年的思恋。笔者以时间为顺序分析两人由相遇、相爱、婚变及普拉斯之死,从而得出结论:普拉斯的病态心理是他们的悲剧根源。 Tate Hughes, the poet laureate in the United Kingdom, has been repeatedly attacked for the death of his ex-wife Silvia Plath. In 1998, Hughes finally revealed his heart in the “Letters of Birthday”, and talked to Plass about his thoughts and feelings of depressing for decades. The author analyzes the two by the time sequence by the encounter, love, marriage and Plass’s death, which concluded that: Plass’s psychology is their tragedy roots.