A Senior English analysis deck for “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath, designed to develop students’ analytical thinking, close reading, and essay-writing skills through the study of this chilling, deceptively ...

Back when America was careening from the Eisenhower era—the “tranquillized Fifties,” as Robert Lowell called them—toward the Age of Aquarius, American poetry was undergoing a dramatic shift as well. A ...

I cannot stop writing poems! … They come from the vocabulary of woods and animals and earth. Plath’s fascination with the natural world began in childhood, as she makes clear in her essay Ocean 1212-W ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death. Had Plath enjoyed the longevity of her poetry, she would have turned 90 in October 2022. So significant was Plath’s contribution to modern ...

Perhaps among the bees, peaceful and well-organized social creatures that they are, American confessional poet Sylvia Plath found a solid sense of community, support, and connection that she was ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious, and ...

On a Monday evening in March 1958, the poet Sylvia Plath wrote herself a note for the morning: “Must be up early, to laundry & steal more pink pads of paper tomorrow.” At the time, she was working as ...

As she grappled with the rejection of editors and her husband, Plath spent her last months writing the poems that would secure her literary reputation. Since 1851, obituaries in The New York Times ...