Sylvia Plath index available!

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Kimberley Southwick-Thompson and I wrote a disciplined and highly useful index of motif and themes and major metaphors, etc., in all of Sylvia Plath's poetry and Modern American Poetry (originally from U of Illinois) has made it available. It is very useful for students and teachers (writing papers/essays/preparing lectures, etc.), but useful for anyone tracing a theme or figure in her work.

Please pass it on to anyone who might find it of use:

https://www.modernamericanpoetry.org/content/sylvia-plath-index-themes-and-motifs



Sample index terms (each listing dozens of poems):

Alienation from Nature/Natural Orders

Colossus Figure

Death Wish

Despair/Depression

Distance from Childhood

Loss of Identity

Mental Instability



There are dozens more!

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1. Just in time! Thanks!!