Sylvia plath often gets dismissed because of the large portion of her fan-base comprised of teen-age girls, however today I would like to challenge the “brooding radical feminist” narrative, and hopefully, leave you eager to read the bell jar.
Today on the z Files I cover the tortured life of an iconic american poet, Sylvia Plath.
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Sources:
The Poetry of Sylvia Plath: Crash Course Literature 216 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJn0ZPd6mYo
Sylvia Plath - https://poets.org/poet/sylvia-plath
Sylvia Plath - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sylvia-Plath
Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWl8ZIgCHk
Sylvia Plath - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sylvia-plath
Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/books/review/red-comet-heather-clark-sylvia-plath.html
Why Did Sylvia Plath Die? - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2015/02/why-did-sylvia-plath-die-
