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Creative

Creative . By Mitch Hamburger, Kate Barlock, and Laura Eckman. Early Life. Born October 27, 1932 Father died when she was eight Went to Smith college on scholarship Top of her high school and college class. Later life. Married Ted Hughes and had two children Ted had an affair

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Creative

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  1. Creative ByMitch Hamburger, Kate Barlock, and Laura Eckman

  2. Early Life • Born October 27, 1932 • Father died when she was eight • Went to Smith college on scholarship • Top of her high school and college class

  3. Later life Married Ted Hughes and had two children Ted had an affair Plath committed suicide shortly after Placed her head in a kitchen oven with the gas turned on Died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning at age thirty with her children sleeping in the other room

  4. The Beast He won't be got rid of:Memblepaws, teary and sorry,Fido Littlesoul, the bowel's unfamiliar. A dustbin's enough for him.The dark's his bone.Call him any name, he'll come to it. Mud-sump, happy sty face.I've married a cupboard of rubbish.I bed in a fish puddle.Down here the sky is always falling.Hogwallow's at the window.The star bugs won't save me this mouth.I housekeep in Time's gut-end Among emmets and mollusks,Duchess of Nothing,Hairtusk's bride. He was the bullmanearliermKing of the dish, my lucky animal.Breathing was easy in his airy holding.The sun sat in his armpit.Nothing went moldy. The little invisiblesWaited on him hand and foot.The blue sisters sent me to another school.Monkey lived under the dunce cap.He kept blowing me kisses.I hardly knew him.

  5. Common Topics • Anger • Death • Destruction • Alienation

  6. Common Literary Devices • Free Verse • Allusions • The Holocaust/World War II • Roman and Greek Mythology • Similes

  7. Eg. poem

  8. Literary Criticism • “Unrestrained, exceedingly personal free verse, often about extreme emotional states” (Bawer). • “Sense of common humanity” (Bawer). • “intense focus” (“Plath, Sylvia”). • Inescapability of violence” (Murphy).

  9. Agreements • Intensity • Not God but a Swastika / So black no sky could squeak through / Every women adores a fascist / the boot in the face, the brute / Brute heart of a brute like you • Extreme emotional aspects • ? • Violence • ?

  10. Disagreements • Sense of humanity • “mature recognition that the essentials of one life are the essentials of all” (Bawer).

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