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This trail provides a brief introduction to confessional poetry and the works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
Updated on Jan 27, 13
Created on Nov 23, 09
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g c's List: Sexton and Plath
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Jan 26, 09
Read this "Brief Guide to Confessional Poetry" to get a broad sense of the movement of which Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath were a part.
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Nov 23, 09
Please read this biography of Anne Sexton written by Linda Wagner-Martin and maintained by "Modern American Poetry: An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to Anthology of Modern American Poetry," published by Oxford University Press.
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Jan 26, 09
Read Anne Sexton's "Her Kind" and listen to the poet read it herself.
The final stanza in this poem is the one that always seems to trip people up. What is the scene in the final stanza? What is happening? -
Jan 26, 09
Read this explication of "Her Kind." Though it is not exhaustive, I think it will help unpack the poem.
I also encourage you to view the YouTube video on this page to learn more about Sexton. I've read the biography mentioned in the video. If you want to learn more about Sexton, I highly recommend it. -
Jan 26, 09
Please read Anne Sexton's poem "Housewife" on this page. This page is maintained by a blogger about whom I have little more information. I am not condoning anything else on this blog or encouraging you to read it. It was just a relatively clean page with the poem on it :)
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Jan 26, 09
Please read Anne Sexton's poem "Young" on this page.
Again this is just the blog of someone who happens to like the poem. I do not know anything about the person posting the poem, nor am I encouraging you to read anything else on this blog other than this page. -
Jan 26, 09
Scroll down this page to the Sexton poem "Somewhere in Africa" and read it.
Who was John Holmes? Holmes was a poet who led a poetry workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education that Sexton joined in 1957. He died of cancer in 1962 at the age of 58. This is Sexton's eulogy for him. -
Jan 26, 09
Read this brief biography of Plath written by Prof. Linda Wagner Martin and published for the Heath Anthology of American Literature.
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Nov 23, 09
Read Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" on this page maintained by the Poetry Foundation.
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Nov 23, 09
Want to know more about "Lady Lazarus"? Try these excerpts from scholars collected by the Modern American Poetry website.
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Jan 27, 13
Read "Fever 103," which is posted on the web site "Poem of the Day."
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Nov 23, 09
Confused by "Stings"? See if any of this discussion from the Modern American Poetry website helps.
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Nov 23, 09
Please read this copy of Plath's poem "Stings" posted on this website by a fan of her work.
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Nov 23, 09
Please read this copy of Plath's poem "For a Fatherless Son" posted on this website by a fan of her work.
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