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Sylvia Plath
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Janice L. Rozich – Lake Ridge Middle School, Indiana
Nathel Coca – Campbell County High School, Wyoming
Website Reviewer and Compiler
Chris Huber – on leave, Missouri
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
http://www.hmco.com/college/english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/plath.html
In this fine resource
page for teachers, Linda Wagner-Martin recommends how to treat the author's suicide and women's issues, and the importance of historical context. She says, "Plath must be studied as an expert, compelling poet,
whose influence on the contemporary poetry scene…has been inestimable. Versatility of form (tercet, villanelle, many shapes of organic form, syllabics), use of rhyme (and its variations, near rhyme, slant rhyme,
assonance), word choice (mixed vocabularies)…". This page on Sylvia Plath is part of a larger site that offers the ideas of "contributing editors" on various authors under the same set of headings:
Classroom Issues and Strategies; Major Themes, Historical Perspectives, and Personal Issues; Significant Form, Style, or Artistic Conventions; Original Audience; Comparisons, Contrasts, Connections; Bibliography.
Overall Rating: 4
Sylvia Plath
http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/plath.html
A chronology is followed by a 27 paragraph
biography, a discussion of Plath's work, a list of famous works, URL's for related sites and references. Poems are presented to support the discussion that divides her work into three periods: In her early poetry
"the sense of doom and death, the use of subtle humor, and the display of emotional conflict are identifiable themes." Her transitional poetry, from the period ending with the breakup of her marriage, "is
generally over-intellectualized, humorless, and lifeless." "Plath continues to thread her trademark themes of death and doom and of emotional conflict through her late poetry… (and) abandoned her customary method
of working slowly and laboriously."
Overall Rating: 3
The Complete List of Sylvia Plath Links
http://www.geocities.com/~emily777/PlathLinks.html
The site provides links to a number (#) of other sites in the following categories: Full (9), Small/Incomplete (17), Primarily Poems (13),
Articles/Resources (16), Essays/Criticism (23), Foreign Language (4), Miscellany (11).
Overall Rating: 2 |
