41. Sylvia Plath: Finding The Lost Jewel Biographical information, extracts from Plath s journals, information on The Bell Jar , articles, message board and links. http://www.findingsylvia.netfirms.com

Web Hosting by Netfirms Free Domain Names by Netfirms ... Contact Me Update Feb 15, 2003 I added four new articles about Frieda's views towards the BBC's Plath film. I also put up a new poll. Please cast your vote! Thank you Andrew for updating this for me! Update Nov 2, 2002 I know it's been forever since I have made an update; as usual, life gets in the way. However, I've added a link in the Articles section to a site with pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia Plath. Also, I've been meaning to change the poll for some time since Russell is no longer playing Hughes, but I can't think of a new question. Any suggestions? Feel free to email me. Welcome to Finding the Lost Jewel, this address is temporary for the next 2 months until I get my own domain. There are still a lot more areas that will be added to this site during the summer when I have more free time (hopefully audio, more photos, and a few other ideas I am toying around with). I hope you like it! Check back in the summer for more updates. Thanks to Andrew for making this layout for me and putting up with my complaining :) take my poll at: Poll: View My Guestbook Sign My Guestbook All information is from Letters Home The Journals of Sylvia Plath The Collected Poems The Bell Jar , and Bitter Fame by Anne Stevenson.

42. Plath, Sylvia - Fun Facts And Information Fun Facts about Plath Sylvia. Interesting factoids, information and answers. http://www.funtrivia.com/en/literature/plath-sylvia-8952.html

Fun Trivia Quizzes Games People ... Challenge List Welcome to our world of fun trivia quizzes and quiz games: New Player Play Now! Fun Trivia Plath, Sylvia Structure Sub-topic of: Authors L-P Quizzes Interesting Questions, Facts and Information There are a total of general entries. We are selecting for display. Special Topics The Bell Jar Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information Plath, Sylvia How did Sylvia Plath die? Sylvia Plath She killed herself . February 11, 1963. And her second poetry collection? Sylvia Plath 'Ariel' . 'Ariel,' her most critically-acclaimed work, was published after her death. What was her first collection of poetry called? Sylvia Plath 'The Colossus' What is the title of her only novel? Sylvia Plath 'The Bell Jar' . 'The Bell Jar' is semi-autobiographical. Sylvia Plath was married to what British poet laureate? Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes . Their marriage was unhappy. In what area of Massachusetts was Plath's first home? Test Your Knowledge of Sylvia Plath Jamaica Plain Which Indiana Library holds the Plath Estate? Test Your Knowledge of Sylvia Plath Lilly Which of Plath's collections of poetry was published 2 years after her death?

43. A Sylvia Plath Page Selection of poems written during the last year of Plath s life, brief biography and some photographs. http://www.angelfire.com/journal/sylvia/mysylvia123.html

Winter Trees: A Page of Sylvia Plath SHORT BIOGRAPHY Sylvia was born in Boston and graduated from Smith College. She married the British poet Ted Hughes in 1956. Her first collection of poems, The Colossus (1960), received less recognition than three edited by her husband after her death. The Collected Poems , published in 1981, received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1982. A collection of her letters to her mother, Letters Home , was published in 1976. Johnny panic and the Bible of Dreams (1978), is a collection of her short stories and nonfiction. THE POETRY Most of Sylvia's poems center around suicide and self-hatred. Her autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1963) portrays the isolation she felt during a mental breakdown. "Daddy," a poem written shortly before she committed suicide at the age of 30, viciously describes the love and hate she felt for her father. Some of Sylvia's poems smypathize with the hardships women face in the modern world. These poems later became popular with members of the Women's Liberation Movement. click to view pic1 click to view pic2 click to view pic3 click to view pic4 ... Winter Trees ***Note-All poems posted were taken from Winter Trees . They are all out of the batch from which the Ariel poems were chosen from, and they were all composed in the last year of Sylvia's life.

44. Sylvia Plath - Salon.com Brief analysis of Plath s poetry, and MP3 and streamed RealAudio recordings of Sylvia reading November Graveyard and Black Rook in Rainy Weather . http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/plath/

Hot Topics Our Picks: Movies 2010 Elections U.S. Economy ... Open Salon Top Features: War Room Glenn Greenwald Broadsheet Joan Walsh ... Since You Asked Follow Salon: News War Room Joan Walsh Glenn Greenwald ... About Salon Store Communities Letters Open Salon The Well Table Talk ... Sylvia Plath Thursday, Oct 5, 2000 14:00 ET Sylvia Plath "November Graveyard" and "Black Rook in Rainy Weather" By Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was born in Boston and her work reflected both her New England heritage and the landscape of England where she later lived with her husband, the poet Ted Hughes. What Hughes called "her crackling verbal energy" is apparent in her poems' biting precision of word and image. Gestures in her life of defiance and ecstasy, love or despair, are re-imagined in brilliant archetypal patterns. In the year before her suicide, she was writing the poems that secured her famepoems about her children and her failed marriage, about death and her imagination. "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows, the spokeswoman for our most private, most helpless nightmares... Her poetry is as deathly as it is impeccable; it enchants us almost as powerfully as it must have enchanted her." -Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Listen to archival recordings, part of Random House Audio's Voice of the Poet series.

45. Fred Beake: Plathetic Fallacies This essay discusses the influence other writers like Roethke or Williams may have had on Plath s poetry, discusses her contemporaries and looks at her poetry, arguing that her poems were not personal in a strict sense. Rather, Plath used personae and masks and transformed personal experience into something of more general interest. http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/lynx/lynx56.html

Fred Beake: Plathetic Fallacies I remember 30 years ago, when I was in my first year at University, I used to have arguments with a fellow student, in which I maintained that Schoenberg and Webern (of whom I knew a lot, and he knew very little) were no more (or less) terrifying than Beethoven, and equally classical. One day he told me of this strange poet Sylvia Plath, who was (though I think he enjoyed it) even more terrifying than Schoenberg. I went and bought `Ariel', and was impressed. To me who was soaked in Williams it seemed much more formful, and indeed classical, than it did to him who knew only the English tradition; but equally there could be no doubt as to the hysteria of the book, and the woman had committed suicide. I suppose both with myself and with others I have been trying to reconcile these incompatibles ever since. If I offer what are in many ways still questions and half formed arguments it is out of an increasing irritation at the tendency to pick Sylvia Plath's life story to the bones, and to ignore the radical greatness of her poetry. wholly personal, and not pushing out into fiction? Is it out of some idea that the poem can

46. The Real Sylvia Plath - Salon.com Article by Kate Moses which looks at the journals of Sylvia Plath, exploring the lesser-known side of the poet and theories about what drove her to suicide. http://archive.salon.com/books/feature/2000/05/30/plath1/

Hot Topics Our Picks: Movies 2010 Elections U.S. Economy ... Our Picks Follow Books: News War Room Joan Walsh Glenn Greenwald ... About Salon Store Communities Letters Open Salon The Well Table Talk ... The real Sylvia Plath Tuesday, May 30, 2000 15:30 ET The real Sylvia Plath Her newly published, unexpurgated journals reveal the poet's true demons and support a little-known theory about what drove her to suicide. First of two parts. By Kate Moses It's the tally of "my lusts and my little ideas," wrote 17-year-old Sylvia Plath of the journals in which she confessed her judgments, her "test tube infatuations," her story notes, her cake baking, her dreams and her fears from the age of 12 until days before her death by her own hand at the age of 30. Plath's characterization of her journal stands in stunning contrast to the monumentally revealing document she created: more than a thousand pages scattered through various handwritten notebooks, diaries, fragments and typed sheets, the sum of it an extraordinary record of what she called the "forging of a soul," the creation of a writer and a woman whose many veils and guises have succeeded in forestalling anyone from knowing who she really was, despite her lifelong quest to discover the answer for herself. "You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?" Plath asked herself in the summer of 1952 when she was about to enter her junior year at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Now, with the English publication of Plath's unabridged journals this spring, we are closer than ever to knowing the real identity of this disappointed wife and bereaved daughter, this suicidal mother of two, this poet of electrically charged perceptions and amplified imagination, this woman "enigmatical/shifting my clarities," this Lady Lazarus who evolved out of her own inner torment, the record of which now opens fully, or almost, before us.

47. Plath, Sylvia [WorldCat Identities] The bell jar by Sylvia Plath ( Book ) 181 editions published between 1962 and 2008 in 24 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-32880

Wed Sep 1 02:18:43 2010 UTC lccn-n79-32880 Poets, American20th century Women poets, American20th century Authors, American20th century lccn-n79-133824 Hughes, Ted edt lccn-n2001-20653 Lowell, Robert dte lccn-n50-19920 Plath, Aurelia Schober edt lccn-n79-54166 Dickinson, Emily lccn-n97-22957 Hughes, Ted edt lccn-n79-86767 Stevens, Wallace lccn-n81-72668 McCullough, Frances Monson edt lccn-n50-16866 Moore, Marianne lccn-n50-1417 Sexton, Anne dte lccn-n88-156553 New York Center for Visual History Plath, Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Young adult fiction Autobiographical fiction Feminist fiction American poetry Picture books for children Visual literature Artists' books College studentsSuicidal behavior Becker, Jillian,1932- Friendship Last years Birthday letters (Hughes, Ted) Bishop, Elizabeth,1911-1979 Dickinson, Emily,1830-1886 Musical settings Lowell, Robert,1917-1977 Eliot, T. S.1888-1965 Executors and administrators Canon (Literature) Women poets Biography as a literary form Poets, AmericanBiography Poetry Poets, English Juvenile works American poetryWomen authors Mothers and daughters Psychological fiction Suicide victims Authors' spouses Bibliography English poetry Americans England Records and correspondence Women poets, American

48. Fever 103 Deg. Text of the poem in plain-text format. http://www.palace.net/~llama/poetry/fever

Fever 103 deg. Pure? What does it mean? The tongues of hell Are dull, dull as the triple Tongues of dull, fat Cerebus Who wheezes at the gate. Incapable Of licking clean The aguey tendon, the sin, the sin. The tinder cries. The indelible smell Of a snuffed candle! Love, love, the low smokes roll From me like Isadora's scarves, I'm in a fright One scarf will catch and anchor in the wheel. Such yellow sullen smokes Make their own element. They will not rise, But trundle round the globe Choking the aged and the meek, The weak Hothouse baby in its crib, The ghastly orchid Hanging its hanging garden in the air, Devilish leopard! Radiation turned it white And killed it in an hour. Greasing the bodies of adulterers Like Hiroshima ash and eating in. The sin. The sin. Darling, all night I have been flickering, off, on, off, on. The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss. Three days. Three nights. Lemon water, chicken Water, water make me retch. I am too pure for you or anyone. Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God. I am a lantern My head a moon Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive. Does not my heat astound you. And my light. All by myself I am a huge camellia Glowing and coming and going, flush on flush. I think I am going up, I think I may rise The beads of hot metal fly, and I, love, I Am a pure acetylene Virgin Attended by roses, By kisses, by cherubim, By whatever these pink things mean. Not you, nor him. Not him, nor him (My selves dissolving, old whore petticoats) To Paradise.

49. Irish Gravestone Inscriptions, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors: Plath, Sylvia History From Headstones contains over 50,000 inscriptions from over 800 graveyards around Northern Ireland, including counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and http://www.historyfromheadstones.com/index.php?id=644

50. The Morning Song Text of the poem in plain-text format. http://www.palace.net/~llama/poetry/msong

Morning Song Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls. I'm no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind's hand. All night your moth-breath Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear. One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral In my Victorian nightgown. Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try Your handful of notes; The clear vowels rise like

51. Plath, Sylvia Biography - S9.com 1932 Born on October 27th in Boston, Massachusetts. An American poet and novelist whose best-known works are preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction.1951 http://www.s9.com/Biography/Plath-Sylvia

Welcome, guest! ~ Login Register Home Browse ... Challenge Quick Search: S9.com Biographies Plath, Sylvia Born: 1932 AD Died: 1963 AD, at 30 years of age. Nationality: American Categories: Authors Essayists Novelists Poets 1932 - Born on October 27th in Boston, Massachusetts. An American poet and novelist whose best-known works are preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction. 1951 - She entered Smith College on a scholarship. 1952 - A co-winner of the Mademoiselle magazine fiction contest. 1955 - She graduated from Smith with highest honors and went on to Newnham College in Cambridge, England, on a Fulbright fellowship. 1956 - Married Ted Hughes, an English poet whom she met at Cambridge, on June 16th. 1957-1958 - For the following two years she was an instructor in English at Smith College. 1960 - Her first collection of poems appeared as "The Colossus". 1963 - After a burst of productivity, Plath took her own life. Died on February 11th in London, England. - Her second book, a strongly autobiographical novel titled "The Bell Jar", was published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas.” The book describes the mental breakdown, attempted suicide, and eventual recovery of a young college girl. 1965-1981 - "Ariel", a collection of her later poems, helped spark the growth of something of a cult devoted to Plath.

52. The Bell Jar Study Guide & Literature Essays | GradeSaver Summary and analysis of The Bell Jar. Includes a biography, message board, information on characters and themes, and background information. http://www.classicnote.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/belljar/

53. Plath Sylvia Essays Even in her earlier poems, Sylvia Plath displays an unhealthy preoccupation with sex, madness, morbidity and obscurity.There seem to be a number of common themes running http://www.megaessays.com/viewpaper/46791.html

var base_url = "http://www.megaessays.com/"; Acceptance Essays Arts Custom Papers English ... Login Plath Sylvia Even in her earlier poems, Sylvia Plath This and her detailed observation of the "furred petals"� almost incites sympathy for her as this mad woman is "ambushed"� and panic stricken by the "bright shards of broken glass"�. Furthermore, Plath justifies the virgin"tms choice to endure the pain: "The sign of the hag"� (the virgins fear of aging). This is first noticed in the title, which grandly encapsulates a mad woman stumbling to tea in a mental institution but is reverberated through, "No novice in those elaborate rituals"� and the fact that she is wearing "purple"� (a royal colour). The tortuous and enigmatic adjectives used to describe furniture ("knotted table and crooked chair"�) illustrates the obscurely twisted perception of Miss Drake as she clumsily "lifts one webbed foot after the other"�, pretending she is a duck, "her bird-quick eye cocked askew"�. All of Plath"tms poems contain some kind of obscurity but Resolve is the most interesting as it centres around making common images appear obscure. By depicting her as a feeble woman being ambushed by splinters in the floor, one might be tempted to assume that Plath is sympathetic toward Miss Drake , but having considered the banal diction and lack of emotion and lyrical phrasing, it seems that Plath is more scornful than compassionate. By adding this beautiful phrase at the end, Plath includes a cruel irony: after searching for so long for something positive and being unable to find it, he finally sees something possibly worth living for. The brute physicality conveyed through onomatopoeia in the poem impregnates the feeling of primeval sexuality in which violence is interlaced. In Suicide off

54. Sample Journal: AP American Literature Summer Reading Summary of characters, setting, style, structure and themes in The Bell Jar and a brief essay on dualities in the novel (by teacher Stephanie Kight). http://www.angelfire.com/journal/advancedplacement/index.html

Sample Journal: AP American Literature Summer Reading The Bell Jar (by Sylvia Plath) Part I: Major Characters (with Symbols) Esther Greenwood (Elly Higginbottom) The protagonist of the novel; a young, gifted, attractive intellectual who wins a summer internship at a glamour magazine in New York; incapable of resolving what her identity should be, she attempts suicide, recuperates in a psychiatric hospital, and eventually prepares to re-enter the world. (NOTE: colors, esp. black, white, gray; dead fetuses; fetal position; alter egos; clothes; suffocating, cocoonlike places like the bell jar) Jay Cee Esther's boss during the summer internship; physically unattractive, she is still passionately loved by her husband (a surprise to Esther); she is a goal-oriented, professional woman (something unusual at the time of the novel's action1950s). Doreen and Betsy Two friends of Esther during the summer; they are two of the "polar" characters Esther studies to try to ascertain her own identity; Doreen is glamorous, blonde, and wild; Betsy is wholesome and more "down home." Buddy Willard Yale medical student; Esther's first boyfriend; although he does not excite her physically, she considers him as a potential husband because he is the kind of boy she knows she's "expected" to accept. (NOTE: dead turkey parts as descriptors of his genitals).

55. Plath, Sylvia Summary | BookRags.com Plath, Sylvia. Plath, Sylvia summary with encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/eb/plath-sylvia-eb/

56. Sylvia Plath: Escaping The Bell Jar An introduction to The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath s novel about a young woman s nervous breakdown and her inner journey to reclaim a self lost in a sea of expectations. Suite101.com article. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/british_literature/95534

57. Plath, Sylvia Free Study Guides, Book Notes, Book Reviews More Pay it forward Tell others about Novelguide.com http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/aww_03/aww_03_00967.html

58. Lit-Med New York University Literature database entry. Selection of Plath s poems annotated with summary, commentary, hyperlinked keywords and publication information. http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/People?action=view&id=2080

59. What's New Genre Poem (12 pp.) Keywords Body SelfImage, Childbirth, Grief, Hospitalization, Infertility, Love, Pain, Parenthood, Patient Experience, Pregnancy, Time, Women's Health http://litmed.med.nyu.edu/Annotation?action=view&annid=1165

60. The Journals Of Sylvia Plath | Books | Guardian.co.uk Stephen Moss assesses the critical response to the publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath . Online Guardian newspaper. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2000/apr/04/sylviaplath

document.domain = "guardian.co.uk"; Turn autoplay off Turn autoplay on Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Jump to content [s] Jump to site navigation [0] Jump to search [4] Terms and conditions [8] ... Register Text larger smaller About us About us Contact us Press office Guardian Print Centre ... Subscribe Today's paper The Guardian G2 features Comment and debate Editorials, letters and corrections ... Subscribe Zeitgeist Today's hot topics guardian.co.uk Books Web News Sport Comment Culture ... Books Critical mass The Journals of Sylvia Plath Stephen Moss assesses the critical response to the publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath Buy it at BOL Tweet this guardian.co.uk Tuesday 4 April 2000 12.18 BST The publication of The Journals of Sylvia Plath (Faber, £30) was, as Jacqueline Rose noted in the Observer , "heralded as an event of some literary significance". Ms Rose, an authority on Plath, was given a good deal of space to expound on that significance, but didn't quite manage it. Her conclusion - "No potential writer trying to haul themselves from bed, drudgery or distraction into writing should miss them" - made it sound more like a creative writing textbook than a new account of a life that has proved captivating and hugely controversial since Plath's suicide in 1963. Other critics were more willing to base their readings of Plath's life on her words, and two -

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