Tulips

"Tulips" is a poem by American poet Sylvia Plath. The poem was written in 1960 and included in the collection Ariel published in 1965. Tulips is structured as a nine-stanza, sixty-three line poem. The speaker is in a hospital bed and describes her process of recovery from surgery via an image of tulips (presumably a gift) that interrupt her calm stay in the hospital where she has "given [her] name and [her] day-clothes up to the nurses / And [her... more

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, children's author, and short story author. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. The book's protagonist, Esther Greenwood,...

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Confessionalism is a label formally applied to a style of American poetry that emerged in the 1950 and 1960. The label continues to be applied, though usually in a derogatory sense, to poetry about personal experience, particularly when that poetry is written carelessly or thoughtlessly. ...

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