Sylvia Plath was a renowned American poet born in 1932 in Boston. She had a difficult childhood after her father died when she was young. Plath published poems during her time in college and later married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956. After having two children, her marriage ended in separation and she wrote her famous collection Ariel before committing suicide in 1963. The poem "Morning Song" depicts Plath expressing her intense love and responsibility for her newborn child as a mother.