Did Sylvia Plath commit suicide before or after Hughes became Poet Laureate?
Before
After
The same year
No one knows
Answer
Sylvia Plath committed suicide before Ted Hughes became Poet Laureate. Plath died on February 11, 1963, and Hughes was appointed Poet Laureate on October 4, 1984. This means that Plath died over 21 years before Hughes became Poet Laureate.
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