BELLWORK Please work on Page 24 of your Poetry Packet.

PLANNER: HOMEWORK Tonight, you will try to create your own pantoum! This can be on any school appropriate subject you wish.

Sylvia Plath and the Pantoum 1-29-19

The Pantoum The Pantoum, as a poetic form, originated in Malaysia in the 1400s The Pantoum originally served as a folk poem However, over time the Pantoum became a very popular poetic form in the British and French world The Pantoum has a little bit of a complicated form, so let me help you figure it out...

The Pantoum Here is a Pantoum: What do you notice about the form? We pace each other for a long time. I packed my anger with the beef jerky. You are the baby on the mountain. I am in a cold stream where I led you. I packed my anger with the beef jerky. You are the woman sticking her tongue out in a cold stream where I led you. You are the woman with spring water palms.

The Pantoum The Pantoum can be anything longer than a stanza, but there is a specific form it takes In a Pantoum, the second and fourth lines of the stanza before the next become the first and third lines of the next stanza I will try to show you better than it is explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQB6p_2QoIs

Now... The person in position 3, please write one quatrain on a new piece of paper When you are done, start the next stanza by making the second line of the stanza the first and the fourth line of the stanza the third Then… Pass it to your shoulder neighbor! We will do this until you have a complete poem at your table 3* 4 1 2

The Pantoum Tonight, you will write your own Pantoum! It’s okay if it’s not completely correct yet-- I will help you out when I’m grading This is a super fun form, so seriously, have fun with it! Now, we will move on to a poet...

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Boston She was the daughter of a German immigrant and his wife When she was eight, her father died, which deeply affected her With money being tight, her and her mother moved out of Boston It was after moving away that Plath showed a lot of talent She won numerous awards and won many writing contests She even won a fellowship with prestigious magazine Mademoiselle before entering college on scholarship

Sylvia Plath Later on, her experiences with the magazine were fictionalized Plath wrote about her time with the magazine She published it later as her only novel, The Bell Jar This book does not only talk about her magazine internship Instead, this book heavily deals with Plath’s internal struggles This book chronicles her struggle with mental health

Sylvia Plath Although Plath struggled, she was a star student She won many awards and was being published at a young age She married poet Ted Hughes, and lived in England They had children together And Plath was a beekeeper! Her poetry details some of this Her and Hughes had a rough marriage, but Plath loved being a mother

Sylvia Plath Plath was known for her “confessional” style of poetry Confessional poetry details the life in an extremely personal way Plath had no problem talking about herself and her life It is said that Plath always wrote about an “idealized” self She wrote about what she wished she were Plath paved the way for personal poetry-- almost to an extreme

Sylvia Plath Plath had a personal world that was hard to tap into Her metaphors are strange and hard to grasp However, her writing is stunningly beautiful

Sylvia Plath At the age of 30, Plath’s mental health was the worst it had been She was significantly struggling Unfortunately, her mental health took her life She was extremely young, and left behind her children However, she also left behind a beautiful catalogue of work

Sylvia Plath Plath is a reminder to us that it is okay to open up We should always self examine, but look outward as well