Sylvia+Plath

= **__Sylvia Plath__** =

by Jordyn, Angelle, and Taylor

__**Some Poems or Fiction Books/some with the start of them/some with what they are about:**__

 * //Daddy// (published 1962)//-// You do not do, you do not do/dramatizes the hate and love a young woman feels for her father, who died when she was 8
 * //Lady Lazarus// (published 1962)//-// I have done it again.../explore feelings of despair
 * //Medusa (//published 1960)- tells of a daughter's troubled relationship with her mom
 * //The Jailer//- in //The Jailer// a wife expresses anger at her brutal, self-centered husband
 * //Ariel// (published 1965)- explore feelings of despair
 * //Three Women//- presents the thoughts of women as they feel the pain and joy of child birth
 * //The Colossus// (published 1960)- I shall never put you together entirely, pieced, glued, and properly jointed...
 * //Crossing the Water// (published 1962)- Black lake, black boat, two black paper-cut people, Where do the black trees go that drink here...
 * //Winter Trees// (published 1962)- The wet dawn inks are doing their blue dissolve...
 * //The Collected Poems// (published 1981)- A book of several of Sylvia Plath's poe ms.
 * //The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath// (1950-1962)
 * //The Bell Jar// (published 1963)- a college student comes to see her friends as hypocrites and her own values as false/following a suicide attempt, the student is able to discover new and more satisfying reasons for living
 * Her short stories, collected in Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams (published 1977)- focus on the central characters' feelings of loneliness and uncertaint

**// __Morning Song__ //****// by Sylvia Plath //****// Published 1966 //** //Love set you going like a fat gold watch.////The m////idwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry////Took its place among the elements.//

//Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.////In a drafty museum, your nakedness// //Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.//

//I'm no more your mother// //Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow// //Effacement at the wind's hand.//

//All night your moth-breath// //Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:// //A far sea moves in my ear.//

//One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral////In my Victorian nightgown.////Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square//

//Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try////Your handful of notes;////The clear vowels rise like balloons.//

__**Life Span:**__

 * born on October 27, 1932
 * died on February 11, 1963
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">age 30 when died
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in college she nearly killed herself with sleeping pills
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">later described this experience in an autobiographical novel, //The Bell Jar//, published in 1963
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">committed suicide with cooking gas and an overdose of sleeping pills

**__Childhood-Adult Life:__**

 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">born to middle class parents in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">model daughter, popular in school, straight A's
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">her dad died when she was 8 years old
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">her mother worked hard to earn a living
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">when she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950, she already had an impressive list of publications
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">at Smith she wrote over 400 poems
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">after she wrote //The Bell Jar//, she graduated from Smith summa cum laude in 1955 and winning a Fulbright scholarship to study at Cambridge, England
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1956- she married British poet Ted Hughes




 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1960- she was 28, //The Colossus//(1st book) was published in England
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">less than 2 years after the birth of their first child the marraige broke apart
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">winter 1962-1963(one of the coldest in the centuries), Sylvia found living in a small London flat, with 2 children, ill with the flu and low on money
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the hardness of her life seemed to increase her need to write

**__After Death:__**

 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She was not really known at the time of her death.
 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She became famous with publication of //Ariel// (1965) a collection of her poems.
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//Collected Poems// (1981) won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Her writings include a volume of letters to her mother, //Letters Home//(1975).

**__Interesting Facts:__**

 * <span style="color: #eb0036; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">generally considered one of the most powerful American writers to have emerged since the 1940s
 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">published her first poem when she was 8 years old
 * <span style="color: #03b0b0; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">her fiction, like her verse, frequently explores the dark side of modern life, though usually with humor

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<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__** ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍(wiki page)-**__

 * Axelrod, Steven G. //The World Book Encyclopedia.// Chicago: World Book, 2006. Print.
 * "Sylvia Plath Biography." //Famous Poets and Poems - Read and Enjoy Poetry//. Famous Poets And Poems, 2006. Web. 01 Dec. 2011. [].

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Georgia,serif;">__**(Wiki page)-**__

 * Hazen, Edith P. //The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry.// New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Print.
 * "Sylvia Plath." //Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More//. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/11>.
 * "Sylvia Plath Poems, Biography and Quotes - by American Poems." //American Poems - YOUR Poetry Site//. Web. 15 Dec. 2011. <http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/sylviaplath#poems>.

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