Your Own Sylvia: A Verse Portrait of Sylvia Plath by Stephanie Hemphill
Sylvia Path was a great poet and Stephanie Hemphill stays true to the basic framework of the poet's life, highlighting her major milestones: her childhood, college years, her hospitalization and first suicide attempt, as well as her first meeting with poet Ted Hughes—whom Plath would marry. The reader will get to know Sylvia Plath through the poems in this book. Accompanying each entry, the author includes footnotes with background information about the people and events alluded to in the poems. Plath committed suicide during a prolific time in her life. Her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, had just been published and this book would be an excellent curriculum companion for that novel.
Sylvia Plath is a favorite poet of mine. I use her works a lot for UIL Prose and poetry. The students can really connect to Plath because her life was so realistic and she expressed it in the best way she could: poetry.
Sylvia Path was a great poet and Stephanie Hemphill stays true to the basic framework of the poet's life, highlighting her major milestones: her childhood, college years, her hospitalization and first suicide attempt, as well as her first meeting with poet Ted Hughes—whom Plath would marry. The reader will get to know Sylvia Plath through the poems in this book. Accompanying each entry, the author includes footnotes with background information about the people and events alluded to in the poems. Plath committed suicide during a prolific time in her life. Her autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, had just been published and this book would be an excellent curriculum companion for that novel.
Sylvia Plath is a favorite poet of mine. I use her works a lot for UIL Prose and poetry. The students can really connect to Plath because her life was so realistic and she expressed it in the best way she could: poetry.
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