Example sentences for: plath

How can you use “plath” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of Plath's feminist defenders say Hughes' "lax and digressive" verses "serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was" (Katha Pollitt, the New York Times Book Review ). Hughes' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath's greatness: Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide.

  • Aside from anecdotal accounts of abuse, these arguments rely on testimony from Plath herself--in her journals and poems.

  • Feminists say Hughes' tormenting of Plath continued after her death.

  • In 1963, the 30-year-old poet Sylvia Plath killed herself, placing her head on a folded cloth inside an oven and turning on the gas.

  • Hughes admits to destroying the journals Plath wrote during the last, most tumultuous year of their marriage and "misplacing" other journals.


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