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Plath reported that while caring for her two children during the winter of 1962 she wrote “a poem a day before breakfast.” [3] “Elm” was inspired by an enormous wych-elm that shaded the Devon house, “growing on a shoulder of a moated prehistoric mound.” [ 4 ]
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.
Reading the poem on a BBC radio programme, Plath explained the significance of the title: All through the poem, I have in mind the enigmatic figures in this painting—the three terrible faceless dressmaker’s dummies in classical gowns…the dummies suggest a twentieth-century version of other sinister trios of women - the Three Fates , the ...
"Poem for a Birthday" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath, dated 7 November, 1959 and first appearing in the collection The Colossus and Other Poems published by Heinemann in 1960, by Alfred A. Knopf in 1962, and by Faber & Faber in 1976.
"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath that was first published in 1955, the year she graduated from Smith College summa cum laude. [1] An abstract poem about an absent lover, it uses clear, vivid language to describe seaside scenery, with "a grim insistence" on reality rather than romance and imagination.
Yew tree. Plath composed “The Moon and the Yew Tree” while living with fellow poet and spouse Ted Hughes at his family’s estate in Devon, England.The poem was conceived as an “exercise” in which Hughes challenged Plath to respond in verse to the full moon setting over a yew tree in a churchyard visible from her bedroom window.
Biographer and literary critic Caroline King Barnard refers to the “ strumpet-spinster theme evident in Plath’s poetry, “powerfully and excellently expressed in"Fever 103°.” The tension is created by the contest between the spinster, who invokes “disturbing questions about purity and punishment,” and the strumpet, who “yearns for ...
Selected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid; Selected Poems (Howard Moss) by Howard Moss; Selected Poems (Robert Nathan) by Robert Nathan; Selected Poems (Sylvia Plath) by Sylvia Plath; Selected Poems (Robert Pinsky) by Robert Pinsky; Selected Poems (J. C. Ransom) by John Crowe Ransom; Selected Poems (C. A. Smith) by Clark Ashton Smith