Facts about Sylvia Plath

 

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Sylvia Plath.  

 

This week’s famous poet is Sylvia Plath. Last week’s famous poet was William Shakespeare. 

Sylvia Plath was a famous poet and author. She wrote over four hundred poems. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents’ names are Otto Plath and Aurelia Schober. She had one sibling.

 

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Here is a list of some poems by Sylvia Plath: 

• April Aubade
• Cinderella
• Morning Song
• Heavy Woman
• Frog Autumn
• April 18
• Elm
• Lorelei
• Kindness
• Barren Woman

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Quick facts about Sylvia Plath: 

1. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 27, 1932. She died on February 11, 1963 in London, England. She was thirty years old. She died from carbon monoxide poisoning. She is buried at St. Thomas A. Beckett Churchyard, Heptonstall, England.

2. Sylvia Plath was not only a poet; she also wrote two books. The books are titled:

• The Bell Jar
• It-Doesn’t-Matter Suit and other stories

3. The following is one of Sylvia Plath’s poems:

You’re

Clownlike, happiest on your hands,  

Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,  

Gilled like a fish. A common-sense  

Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.  

Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,  

Trawling your dark as owls do.  

Mute as a turnip from the Fourth  

Of July to All Fool’s Day,

O high-riser, my little loaf.

 

Vague as fog and looked for like mail.  

Farther off than Australia.

Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.  

Snug as a bud and at home  

Like a sprat in a pickle jug.  

A creel of eels, all ripples.  

Jumpy as a Mexican bean.  

Right, like a well-done sum.  

A clean slate, with your own face on.

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4. In 1941, Sylvia Plath’s first poem was published in the Boston Herald. She was eight years old.

Here is the poem:

"Hear the crickets chirping | in the dewy grass. Bright little fireflies | twinkle as they pass."

5. Sylvia Plath was educated at Smith College in Massachusetts. She also studied at Newnham College in England.

6. Sylvia Plath had one sibling:

• Warren Joseph Plath (1935-2021)

7. Sylvia Plath married Ted Hughes. They had two children:

• Frieda Rebecca Hughes (1960-)
• Nicholas Farrar Hughes (1962-2009)

8. For most of Sylvia Plath’s adult life she suffered from severe mental illness. Her mental illness was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and other treatments.

9. Sylvia Plath’s mother had her take an IQ (intelligence quotient) test when she was twelve years old. She scored 160 on the test. Any score above 140 is considered a genius level.

 

 

 

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Books by Sylvia Plath and others: 

1. The It-Doesn't-Matter Suit by Sylvia Plath
2. Sylvia Plath - Selected Poems

 

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“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.”—Sylvia Plath

 

 

 

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Facts about William Shakespeare

 

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William Shakespeare.  

 

This week’s famous poet is William Shakespeare. Last week’s famous poet was Robert Frost. 

William Shakespeare was a famous poet. He wrote over one hundred and fifty poems, sonnets, and plays. He was born in Stratford, England. His parents’ names are John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He had seven siblings.

 

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Here is a list of some poems by William Shakespeare: 

• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• Sigh No More
• Fidele
• A Fairy Song
• Dear Friend
• Love
• Orpheus
• Bridal
• Silvia
• Fear No More

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Quick facts about William Shakespeare: 

1. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford, England on April 23, 1564. He died on April 23, 1616, in Stratford, England. He was fifty-two years old. He died from an unknown cause. He is buried at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford, England.

2. William Shakespeare was not only a poet; he also wrote plays. He was also an actor in some of the plays he wrote and plays he did not write. He performed plays for many people including Queen Elizabeth I. He retired from acting in 1613.

3. The following is one of William Shakespeare’s poems:

Orpheus

Orpheus with his lute made trees  

And the mountain tops that freeze  

Bow themselves when he did sing:  

To his music plants and flowers  

Ever sprung; as sun and showers

There had made a lasting spring.  

 

Every thing that heard him play,  

Even the billows of the sea,  

Hung their heads and then lay by.  

In sweet music is such art,

Killing care and grief of heart  

Fall asleep, or hearing, die.

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4. William Shakespeare died on his birthday. He supposedly wrote this epitaph for his tomb:

Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear,

To dig the dust enclosed here.

Blessed be the man that spares these stones,

And cursed be he that moves my bones.

5. William Shakespeare may have been educated at the King’s New School in Stratford, England. There are not many records that survived to prove his education.

6. William Shakespeare had seven siblings. Here is a list of their names:

• Joan Shakespeare (1558-1559*)
• Margaret Shakespeare (1562-1563)
• Gilbert Shakespeare (1566-1612)
• Joan Shakespeare (1569-1646)
• Anne Shakespeare (1571-1579)
• Richard Shakespeare (1574-1613)
• Edmund Shakespeare (1580-1607)

7. William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old. They had three children. The two youngest children were fraternal twins. Here is a list of their children:

• Susanna Shakespeare Hall (1583-1649)
• Hamnet Shakespeare (1585-1596)
• Judith Shakespeare Quiney (1585-1662)

8. He wrote over thirty-five plays. His plays have been translated into almost every language in the world. Here is a list of some of William Shakespeare’s plays:

• Romeo and Juliet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Julius Ceasar
• Henry V
• The Tempest
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Comedy of Errors
• The Winter’s Tale
• Macbeth

9. Actress Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was named after William Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway.

 

 

 

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Books by William Shakespeare and others: 

1. What's So Great About Shakespeare? by Sam Rogers

2. Much Ado About Nothing for Kids by Lois Burdett and Denzel Washington

3. The Tempest | Shakespeare for Kids by Jeanette Vigon

 

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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”—William Shakespeare

 

 

 

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Facts about Walt Whitman

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Walt Whitman.  

 

This week’s famous poet is Walt Whitman. Last week’s famous poet was Robert Frost. 

Walt Whitman was a famous poet. He wrote over one hundred and sixty poems. He was born in Huntington, New York. His parents’ names are Walter Whitman and Louisa Van Velsor. He had eight siblings.

 

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Here is a list of some poems by Walt Whitman: 

• A Christmas Greeting
• Going Somewhere
• A Farm Picture
• A Twilight Song
• A Prairie Sunset
• As I Sit Writing Here
• A Child’s Amaze
• Broadway
• Poets To Come
• Tears

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Quick facts about Walt Whitman: 

1. He was born May 31, 1819, in Huntington, New York. He died on March 26, 1892, in Camden, New Jersey. He was seventy-two years old. He died from complications from having pneumonia. He is buried at the Harleigh Cemetery in Camden, New Jersey.

2. Walt Whitman started working at eleven years old to help his parents who were struggling to provide for their large family. He had to stop attending school to work.

3. The following is one of Walt Whitman’s poems:

TEARS

TEARS! tears! tears!

In the night, in solitude, tears,

On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck'd in by the sand,

Tears, not a star shining, all dark and desolate,

Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head;

O who is that ghost? that form in the dark, with tears?

What shapeless lump is that, bent, crouch'd there on the sand?

Streaming tears, sobbing tears, throes, choked with wild cries;

O storm, embodied, rising, careering with swift steps along the beach!

O wild and dismal night storm, with wind—O belching and desperate!

O shade so sedate and decorous by day, with calm countenance and regulated pace,

But away at night as you fly, none looking—O then the unloosen'd ocean,

Of tears! tears! tears!

 

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4. When Walt Whitman was nineteen years old (1838), he started his own newspaper business. The newspaper is called the Long-Islander and it is still in business today.

5. In 1855, Walt Whitman released the first edition of Leaves of Grass which is a book of poems he wrote and published himself. The book had only twelve of his poems in it. There were only seven hundred and ninety-five copies printed. One of the copies of his poetry book made its way to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet).

6. Walt Whitman had eight siblings. Here is a list of their names:

• Jesse Whitman (1818-1870)
• Mary Elizabeth Whitman (1821-1899)
• Hannah Louisa Whitman (1823-1908)
• Andrew Jackson Whitman (1828-1863)
• George Washington Whitman (1829-1901)
• Thomas Jefferson Whitman (1833-1890)
• Edward Whitman (1835-1892)
• Margaret Whitman

7. Walt Whitman never married and he never had any children.

8. In 1857, Walt Whitman worked as a journalist for the Brooklyn’s Daily Times. He worked there until sometime in 1859.

9. Walt Whitman had a lot of jobs in his lifetime. Here is a list of some of them:

• Teacher
• Voluntary Nurse
• Journalist
• Publisher
• Editor
• Pressman
• Distribution
• Home delivery
• Clerk

 

 

 

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Books by Walt Whitman and others: 

1. Poetry for Kids: Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman and Karen Karbiener

2. Nothing But Miracles by Walt Whitman

3. History for Kids: The Life of Walt Whitman by Charles River Editors

 

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“Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,”—Walt Whitman

 

 

 

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