1. Sylvia Plath
The Life of a Poet

2. 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.”

3. 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

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

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

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