About this trail:
This trail provides a brief introduction to confessional poetry and the works of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
Trail link: http://www.trailfire.com/gill_creel/trails/67103
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/gill_creel/trailview/67103
Summary: http://www.trailfire.com/gill_creel/trailview/67103
0
0
Tags
Similar Trails
1
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.
2
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.
3
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?
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?
4
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.
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.
5
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 :)
6
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.
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.
7
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.
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.
8
Read this brief biography of Plath written by Prof. Linda Wagner Martin and published for the Heath Anthology of American Literature.
9
Confused by "Stings"? See if any of this discussion from the Modern American Poetry website helps.
10
Want to know more about "Lady Lazarus"? Try these excerpts from scholars collected by the Modern American Poetry website.
11
Read this page for an interpretation of "Fever 103 [degrees]".
I also encourage you to listen to the podcast linked on the right side of the page. You can listen to the author of this commentary talk about the poem, and listen to Plath read the poem herself.
I also encourage you to listen to the podcast linked on the right side of the page. You can listen to the author of this commentary talk about the poem, and listen to Plath read the poem herself.
