Description

Designed to inspire and intrigue, this series provides viewers with insight into select poets and/or artist in easy to absorb 1 hour sessions. By studying individuals who have made their mark on art history and literature you can acquire an understanding of our rich cultural heritage. You will learn fascinating facts about the life and times of creative personalities and how they have survived the test of time. What is their contribution to the conversation of ART and POETRY? How are they unique? Art serves as a focal point for examining trends that have shaped the world. How did they reflect and effect the society? What makes them so unforgettable?

20^th century poet/artist, Sylvia Plath was the first poet to posthumously win a Pulitzer Prize. Often, her prolific and emotional work is singled out for the intense coupling of disturbed imagery and its playful use of alliteration and rhyme. Why do you suppose she is known as a “confessional poet?” The idea that “art mimics life” could not be more truthful than it was with her. For fans and followers, Sylvia’s death at a young age is shrouded in mystery. What was the catalyst to her eventual suicide? A few years ago, TIME honored the day of her death by running an article by an avid collector of all things related to her life. How fitting, since she once said, I love the thinginess of things.

In this class we will survey that uniquely obsessive collection and visit Sylvia Plath through her poetry and art.