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So feel inspired with these quotes from poets including Rupi Kaur, Sylvia Plath and Audre Lorde. “Poetry begins with a lump in the throat.” So said the late, great Robert Frost. While Frost ...
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The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
According to Sylvia’s September 1962 letter to Beuscher, nothing like it ever happened again.” To understand these lines of ...
Van Dyne's Revising Life: Sylvia Plath's Ariel Poems, published by the University of ... Hughes takes titles from Plath's poems for his own and tries to reappropriate some of her most famous lines and ...
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Karen V. Kukil’s featured lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Women and Poetry” from the Sylvia Plath 75th Year Symposium at the University of Oxford on October ...
Olivia Plath has a message for trolls who are criticizing her decision to speak out about her childhood. “It’s so interesting ...
Sylvia Plath and her younger brother Warren were raised ... There is a kind of sarcasm in what is one of the poem’s most quoted lines, but beneath its flippant veneer lay a terrible truth: ...
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Sylvia Plath and her husband ... which is supposed to sound just like conversation but is written in strict 7-line stanzas, ...
Sylvia Plath, committed suicide. As a small infant, Nicholas would have been extremely sensitive to his mother's depression and this would leave an indelible fault line in his own personality.
The task of understanding Sylvia Plath as a writer is intimidating. Her archives are vast. They span countries and colleges, and have varying levels of access and availability. Studying her oeuvre ...
Confessional poetry or “confessionalism” is verse whose autobiographical detail is deeply personal to the poet.Universally acclaimed poet Sylvia Plath wrote ... two-line stanzas are couplets ...