American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1606 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sylvia Plath: The Life and the Work
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The idea
Plath was born in Boston, lost her authoritarian father at eight, took a scholarship to Smith and a Fulbright to Cambridge, and married the poet Ted Hughes. The witness describes an outwardly exemplary life above unresolved problems, some personal and some from the era's attitudes to women.
In practice
An exemplary surface over an unresolved life.
Where people slip
She died by suicide in February nineteen sixty-three.
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