Sylvia Plath

Writing

Sylvia Plath

Born October 27, 1932 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Died February 11, 1963 · aged 30

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry. She is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar (1963), a semi-autobiographical novel published one month before her suicide. The Collected Poems was published in 1981, which included previously unpublished w…

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The Bell JarThe Bell Jar · 1979
The Bell Jar
4.61979
MovieDrama
A young woman's summer in New York includes working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, her return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the 1950s, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
Follia come poesiaFollia come poesia · 1979
Follia come poesia
1979
Movie
Two years together by Le Nemesiache with the psychiatric patients of the former 'Frullone' hospital in Naples. This experience of music and dance had a profound impact on those who took part in it. This film is a testimony that indicates possible alternatives to the inhuman marginalization of the mental hospital institution. The director of the hospital Sergio Piro, operators and nurses from the 6th women's division and the Department for Youth Problems of Naples collaborated in the making of the film.
Lady LazarusLady Lazarus · 1992
Lady Lazarus
7.01992
Movie
A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry. A carousel of images in windows, an atmosphere of constant metamorphosis; her poetry as cinema. Audo outtakes of Plath reading from "Cut," "Daddy," "Lady Lazarus," "Ariel," "Ouija," as well as excerpts from a 1962 interview. Mixing images of Plath's obsessions (ouija boards, horses, violent self-harm) with photographs of the poet and her work, the film delves deeply into an existence that Plath herself, in a voice-over interview, calls "living on air."
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than DeathTed Hughes: Stronger Than Death · 2015
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
2015
MovieDocumentary
Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, focusing on how his life story influenced his work and vision.
Sylvia Plath reading poems from ArielSylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel · 1962
Sylvia Plath reading poems from Ariel
10.01962
MovieDocumentary
Sylvia Plath Read 18 Poems From Her Final Collection, Ariel, in a 1962 Recording
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia PlathSuperman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath · 1999
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
1999
Movie
In a dark no-place evocative of Superman's own psychic 'Fortress of Solitude' the alienated Man of Steel recites those sections of Plath's writings that utilize the image of the bell jar. Superman directs these lines to Kandor, the bell jar city that represents his own traumatic past, for he is the only surviving member of a planet that has been destroyed. Kandor now sits, frozen in time, a perpetual reminder of his inability to escape that past, and his alienated relationship to his present world. For us, Kandor is an image of a time that never was — the utopian city of the future that never came to be.
I Am VerticalI Am Vertical · 2025
I Am Vertical
1.02025
MovieDrama
Based on a poem by Sylvia Plath from her collection Ariel, “I Am Vertical” is a journey into the mind of a young girl who’s lost in this world and dreams of being as stable like flowers and trees
EpilogueEpilogue · 2019
Epilogue
10.02019
Movie
The end of Autobiography.

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Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia PlathSuperman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath · 1999
Superman Recites Selections from 'The Bell Jar' and Other Works by Sylvia Plath
1999
Movie
In a dark no-place evocative of Superman's own psychic 'Fortress of Solitude' the alienated Man of Steel recites those sections of Plath's writings that utilize the image of the bell jar. Superman directs these lines to Kandor, the bell jar city that represents his own traumatic past, for he is the only surviving member of a planet that has been destroyed. Kandor now sits, frozen in time, a perpetual reminder of his inability to escape that past, and his alienated relationship to his present world. For us, Kandor is an image of a time that never was — the utopian city of the future that never came to be.

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