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Articles about sylvia plath poetry (0-4 of 4)
- Sylvia Plath - Poet, Novelist, American Icon
By: marciano guerrero | - Discussing with my wife the quality education that women get in women's colleges, Mary Patricia pointed out to Wellesley producing Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Smith College Sylvia Plath. Of Mrs. Clinton we know a lot, but of Sylvia Plath we know less.
Sylvia Plath attended Smith from 1950-1955, and graduated summa cum laude, wining a Fulbright Scholarship to Cambridge. There she met poet Ted Hughes, whom she later married.
Not only was she talented poet but also an essa ...
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- Reflections On "mirror" And "metphors" By Sylvia Plath
By: Kerry Wood | - REFLECTIONS ON "MIRROR" AND "METAPHORS"
Mirror
by Sylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall . It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a partr of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness separate us over ...
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- Poetics: Free Vs. Formal
By: Christine Harrell | - Poems can be constructed in either free verse or formal verse. Most poets today write free verse which is open to pattern and is recognized as nonconforming and rhyme less verse. Metrical verse relies on stanza length combined with meter or rhyme patterns distinct to itself. There are several traditional commonly-known forms of poetry.
Haiku, a form of Japanese descent, consists of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively, and traditionally deals with nature sub ...
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- Why There Is A Growing Demand For Poetry Books
By: Justine Eaglestone | - Where were you when American poetess Sylvia Plath gassed herself in her London kitchen at the age of 30 during the harsh winter of 1963?
Not perhaps the stuff our memories are made of, but all that could change. There is a distinct revival worldwide of interest in poetry and poets. This is expressed in the increased purchase of poetry books, both anthologies and works by individual poets, in the new and secondhand book markets.
There are a number of reasons for thi ...
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