Plath's Life
This city is where Sylvia Plath was born?
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
What device is used in quote, "The light burns blue"?
What is Imagery?
The speaker calls herself a "miner." What does this suggest?
What is searching deep inside?
Sylvia Plath married this famous poet?
Who is Ted Hughes?
In the poem, the candle "gulps" and "recovers." What device is used here?
What is personification?
What color is the light described as?
What is blue?
Sylvia Plath attended this all girls college in Massachusetts?
What is Smith College?
The poem contrasts "cold homicides" with "roses." What device is this?
What is juxtaposition?
What do "waxy stalactites" and "tears" create?
What is a cold, dark image?
This is Sylvia Plath's most famous collection of poetry?
What is Ariel?
What device is used in "vice of knives"?
What is metaphor?
What might "black bat airs" symbolize?
What is fear or darkness?
This collection of poems was created by Ted Hughes to combat Ariel?
What is Birthday Letters?
What is free verse?
What does "vice of knives" suggest?
What is pain or danger?