The Divided Self journal is #15 (Mind over Myth). Sorry for any confusion!

- print off "sow", "in plaster" and "purdah" for next class. (on the website above the Plath video there is a link to a site that lists all Plath poems.)
- read Divided Self article (I really think you'll enjoy it! Really.)

- We'll be finishing the other domestic poems next class.

- you have been given one poem per group (Hannah is with Dian and maged).
- you will be presenting for ten minutes as a group and marked the same way you would be marked for and IOC (see rubric in Green booklet) with one addition group mark section (where you distribute marks among group members).
- you will be given an overhead to use in class.
-please print off the file on the Plath tab on our class website ( all the poems we are using with this article) so that you can take notes while people are talking.

Summary for Plath Striptease article from Hannah's group:

"This particular journal article deals with the confessional aspects of the poetry of Sylvia Plath, and how the figuratively naked aspects of her poetry differ from her male contemporaries. Because historically fiction - and society - have celebrated the male naked form as a liberating symbol, and have portrayed the woman's body as vulnerable to attack and inviting to rape, a woman finds no freedom in her exposed form. The article posits the idea that because of these conceptions, which Sylvia Plath could not avoid when writing as a woman among men, she wrote as though her inherent female bodily qualities inhibited her artistry and are insufficient to identify herself as a respectable poet. She thus had to write as a man would to express her conflict as a poet possessing a woman's body, evensofar as to illustrate her own skewed ability to rape, so as to avoid being a representation of her faulty sex. As a female confessional poet, rather than as a man, she wrote as though the frustrating reality that was her femininity was paradoxically something to overcome and also an ultimately unavoidable situation as a victim, creatd by a language and culture she wrote in."

- read Viciousness in the Kitchen.
- you can also read ahead by reading Divided Self.

If you are still reading through the Plath article (which, by the way, is a little longer than 13 pages) and you are curious to read some of the referenced poems, I have a link to an online database of all of Plath's works on my website.

Enjoy the article; it is a meaty one!

- read Sylvia Plath journal #10. Take notes and summarize in 5 sentences.
- bring Workd Lit #1 with corrections to class. I will keep them on file.

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