Sylvia Plath The Life of a Poet.

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Sylvia Plath The Life of a Poet

WRITING PROMPT: Respond to the following quote. “If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.”

Biography American Poet October 27,1932- February 11,1963 Married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 First poet to win a Pulitzer Prize Struggled with depression Committed suicide in 1963

Style of poems Intensely Personal Forbidden subjects such as: Death Suicide Female Rage Mourning

Listen to Poems “Poppies in October” “The Applicant”

READ AND ANNOTATE Think about irony, length, time period (1960’s), feminism

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