General Knowledge Flashcards
Birthday letters was written over
30 years
Ted and Sylivia met in
1956
Sylvia died in
Feb 1963
Ted was diagnosed with cancer in
1998
Unexpected Elegies was written
Within 2 months of Emma’s death in 1912
Ted and Assia kissed in
1961 in Cornwall
Fulbright Scholars
Teds view of Sylvia before he’s even met her
St Botolphs
Named after a place where a party for a new mag that Hughes and friend Lucas Myers had set up
First physical encounter with Plath
The shot
Plaths flash backs
Ted blaming failed relationship on her obsession with her fathers high expectations.
18 Rugby Street
Plath took a trip to Paris to find her lover Richard - realised her respiration to feel loved
Fidelity
When Plath and Hughes first started dating
A pink Wool knitted dress
Hughes is talking about their marriage
9 Willow Street
Beginning of end of marriage - Plath moving back to Boston brought back memories of ECT could be linked to how Esther felt in New York in the Bell Jar?
It’s the Volta with in the collection
Epiphany
Written after Hughes and Plath had first child. Boy- Nicholas
Living in a cramped flat in London
Dreamers
Only poem about Assia
