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LT1 Exam: Plath/Hughes

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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LT1 Exam: Plath/Hughes

LO: To become familiar with the LT1 schedule and the set poets
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1. Description: On the surface

2. Assertion of meaning: one strong view

3. Commentary with supporting quotation

4. Critical analysis of language + structure +form: layered and tentative meanings... "perhaps"

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Poetry toolkit

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13 Friday sessions until the LT1 exam...

Look over the schedule and mark with a . which poems we'll be covering in your Plath/Hughes anthologies.

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SHORT BIOGRAPHY: PLATH
American poet
German father, Otto: studied bees
Moved to UK on Cambridge scholarship
Met Ted Hughes in 1956, 2 children
Depression and eventual suicide

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KEY THEMES IN PLATH
Confessional speakers: the private/taboo
Identity, the "self", self examination
Doubles/The echo
The speaker dissolving/fragmenting/alienation
The family/the body/pregnancy
Motherhood and fatherhood
Mythology/The natural world (water, bees)
The instability of love

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"You're"

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INDEPENDENT STUDY:
Revise the key terminology
we've learned in class today.

Read and annotate Plath's poem
"The Manor Garden".

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