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“The Disquieting Muses” includes a reference to Plath’s childhood in Winthrop, Massachusetts when a category 3 hurricane struck the area in September 1938: “windows bellied in / like bubbles about to break.” Almost six-years-of-age at the time, Plath retained vivid memories of a storm that killed 564 people and injured 1,700.
Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
Crossing the Water is a 1971 posthumous collection of poetry by Sylvia Plath that was prepared for publication by Ted Hughes. These are transitional poems that were written along with the poems that appear in her poetic opus, Ariel. The collection was published in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber (1975) and in the United States by Harper ...
The list below includes the poems in the US version of the collection, published by Heinemann in 1960. [1] This omits several poems from the first UK edition, published by Faber and Faber in 1967, [2] including five of the seven sections of "Poem for a Birthday", only two of which ("Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" and "The Stones") are included in the US edition.
In terms of how I would describe my music: I’ve used phrases like lullaby-club music, melancholy-disco, Magnetic Fields-meets-LCD-meets-Beach Boys. ... inspired by Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. ...
Plath uses personification in "Mad Girl's Love Song", giving the stars in the ability to "waltz" and darkness the ability to "gallop". Plath uses anaphora, repeating the pronoun "I" at the beginning of 13 of the 19 lines within the poem. The continued recurrent imagery of isolation and darkness juxtaposed with fiery and loud imagery also ...
In the wake of Plath’s death by suicide, her husband and fellow writer Ted Hughes constructed a narrative that he was the “stabilizing factor” in his wife’s life but that, in the end, even ...
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