Key Facts

• Title: Words
• Poet: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
• Written Date: On February 1, 1963, just 10 days before she died by suicide.
• Publication Date: It was published in her posthumous collection, Ariel, in 1965
• Form: Free verse poem (no set rhyme or meter)
• Length: 4 stanzas, each with 5 lines; 20 lines