Egg-Head and Suicide Off Egg Rock

I'm not going to count it as one of my Official Blog Posts, but I thought it would be good to include my final paper for this class in the blog.

A Comparison of Ted Hughes’s “Egg-Head” and Sylvia Plath’s “Suicide off Egg Rock”

Diane Middlebrook’s article “The Poetry of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: call and response” details the complex ways that Plath and Hughes communicated with each other through their poetry. From the moment of their first meeting to works published after their deaths, their poetry was in constant dialogue. Some dialogues consisted of several poems by both poets; others were single instances of borrowing. By deconstructing the two poems and comparing their form, it can be made evident that the poems “Egg-Head” by Ted Hughes and “Suicide off Egg Rock” by Sylvia Plath, while centering around two vastly different subjects, have more in common with one another than what may appear at first glance.

Fig Trees

I haven't read The Bell Jar yet, but in my internet travels I found an illustration by Zen Pencils that someone had done of a quote from the novel. I don't have much to say on the matter, but I thought it was a great representation of the quote, and since it was relevant I decided I'd post it up onto the blog. You should take a look!