Sylvia Plath Flashcards
Her mother was a master student at
When she met plaths father
Who was her
Otto taught what with a focus in
Boston University Aurelia schrober Otto Plath Professor German and biology Apiplogy study of bees
In 1940 when Sylvia was 8 her father died as a result of
He had been a ?
What defined her poems
Diabetes
Strict father
Authoritarian attitudes and death
Even in her youth she was driven to
She kept a journal from age
1st national publication was in? Just after graduating from
Succeed
11 (regional publications)
Christian Science monitor 1950
High school
In 1950 she matriculated at
She was a good student and despite a ? And subsequent ?
She graduated ? In
Smith college
Deep depression in 1953 and suicide attempt
Summa cum lauded in 1955
After graduation she moved to ? On what scholarship
She went to a party and met ?
Shortly after they were married in
Cambridge England Fullbright acholarship 1956 Ted Hughes June 16 1956
She returned to ?
And studied under ?
First collection published in where ? Then where two years later
Returned to England and gave birth to ?
Massachusetts ROBERT Lowell Colossus England US Freida and Nicholas Hughes
Ted Hughes left Plath for ?
That winter Plath wrote most of poems hat would comprise ?
Assia gutmann wevill
Ariel
1963 published seminautpbiogrpahical novel under pseudonym ?
Then on February 11
She wrote a note to
The bell jar
Victoria Lucas
During on of worst winters on record
Downstairs neighbor to call doctor and committed suicide using gas oven
Plaths poetry is often associated with
And compared to poets such as
Often her work is singled out for
Confessional movement
ROBERT Lowell and Anne Sexton
Intense coupling of violent imagery and playful use of alliteration and rhyme
Hughes published ?
Including
Which was the recipient of
She was first poet to win
Three other volumes of work
Collected poems
1982 Pulitzer Prize
After death
