Learn some quick facts about
Sylvia Plath.
This week’s famous poet
is Sylvia Plath. Last week’s famous
poet was William Shakespeare.
Sylvia Plath was a
famous poet and author. She wrote over four hundred poems. She was born in Boston,
Massachusetts. Her parents’ names are Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober. She had one
sibling.
Continue reading to find
out more about Sylvia Plath.
Here is a list of some
poems by Sylvia Plath:
- April Aubade
- Cinderella
- Morning Song
- Heavy Woman
- Frog Autumn
- April 18
- Elm
- Lorelei
- Kindness
- Barren Woman
Parents/caretakers, be sure poems are child-friendly
before reading them to your child/children.
Do you like poetry?
Quick facts about Sylvia
Plath:
1. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932.
She died on February 11, 1963 in London, England. She was thirty
years old. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning. She is buried at St. Thomas
A. Beckett Churchyard, Heptonstall, England.
2. Sylvia Plath was not only a poet; she also
wrote two books. The books are titled:
- The Bell Jar
- It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit and other stories
3. The following is one of Sylvia Plath’s
poems:
You’re
Clownlike, happiest on
your hands,
Feet to the stars, and
moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A
common-sense
Thumbs-down on the
dodo’s mode.
Wrapped up in yourself
like a spool,
Trawling your dark as
owls do.
Mute as a turnip from
the Fourth
Of July to All Fool’s
Day,
O high-riser, my little
loaf.
Vague as fog and looked
for like mail.
Farther off than
Australia.
Bent-backed Atlas, our
traveled prawn.
Snug as a bud and at
home
Like a sprat in a pickle
jug.
A creel of eels, all
ripples.
Jumpy as a Mexican
bean.
Right, like a well-done
sum.
A clean slate, with your
own face on.
(You
can print out a worksheet on this poem. You will fill in the missing words in
the poem)
4. In 1941, Sylvia Plath’s first poem was
published in the Boston Herald. She was eight years old.
Here is the poem:
"Hear the crickets
chirping | in the dewy grass. Bright little fireflies | twinkle as they
pass."
5. Sylvia Plath was educated at Smith College in
Massachusetts and Newnham College in England.
6. Sylvia Plath had one sibling:
- Warren Joseph Plath (1935-2021)
7. Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes. They had
two children:
- Frieda Rebecca Hughes (1960-)
- Nicholas Farrar Hughes (1962-2009)
8. For most of Sylvia Plath’s adult life, she
suffered from severe mental illness. Her mental illness was treated with
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and other treatments.
9. Sylvia Plath’s mother had her take an IQ (intelligence quotient) test when she was twelve. She scored 160 on the test. Any score above 140 is considered a genius level.
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Books by Sylvia Plath and others:
- The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath
- Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems
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Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection.
Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”—Sylvia
Plath
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