Sylvia Plath

 

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Background
Plath's Life The Bell Jar Confessional Poetry
Major Themes Major Symbols Thoughts on Plath
Plath's Life & Death Poetry Timeline  

 

 

The Poems

Juvenilia
Mad Girl's Love Song Demon Lover Cinderella
Family Reunion Bitter Strawberries  

1956
Pursuit Soliloquy of the Solipsist Miss Drake
Channel Crossing Two Sisters of Persephone  

1957
Sow    

1958
Sculptor Full Fathom Five Death of Myth-Making
Virgin in a Tree Hardcastle Crags  

1959
Metaphors The Colossus The Stones
Mushrooms Aftermath The Eye-Mote
The Thin People The Disquieting Muses The Manor Garden

1960
You're Stillborn Love Letter
Candles Suicide Off Egg Rock Blue Moles
The Beekeeper's Daughter    

1961
Face Lift Morning Song Tulips
Wuthering Heights The Moon and the Yew Mirror
I Am Vertical    

1962
The Bee Meeting Arrival of the Bee Box Stings
The Swarm Wintering Poppies in July
The Applicant Daddy Medusa
Lesbos Cut Ariel
Poppies in October Nick and the Candlestick Lady Lazarus
Stopped Dead    

1963
The Munich Mannequins Child Edge

 

 

Tracked Poems
Morning Song Morning Song Morning Song
Pursuit Pursuit Pursuit
The Eye Mote The Eye Mote  
Persephone Persephone  
Lady Lazarus Lady Lazarus  
The Colossus    
Daddy    
Soliloquy of the Solipsist    

 

 

Critical Articles
Viciousness in the Kitchen Death and Rebirth The Monster in the Mirror
Hughes on Plath Medical Imagery in Plath Holocaust Imagery
Extremes in Plath's Poetry The Electra Complex Race & Gender Readings

 

 

Useful Websites
Collected Essays, Articles and Criticism
The Sylvia Plath Forum - analysis and discussion of some poems