The Sylvia Plath Podcast

If you’re studying the poetry of Sylvia Plath for the Leaving Cert, this podcast is for you!

English teacher Laura Daly joins us to give you ideas and in-depth analysis you can use in your poetry essays.

Laura covers different aspects of Plath's poetry in this podcast and examines each of her poems on the syllabus in detail.

Leaving Cert English students will be doing a select number of poems so there are timecodes below for each section so you can skip to the ones you’re studying. ___________________________

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Timecodes:

0:00 Introduction 1:20 Background 3:28 Structuring your answer 5:22 Poem 1 ‘Morning Song’ 8:50 Poem 2 ‘Child’ 11:17 Poem 3 ‘Poppies in July’ 13:56 Poem 4 ‘Black Rook in Rainy Weather’ 17:02 Poem 5 ‘The Arrival of the Bee Box’ 20:25 Poem 6 ‘Mirror’ 23:53 Poem 7 ‘Finisterre’ 27:30 Poem 8 ‘Elm’ 31:31 Poem 9 ‘The Times are Tidy’ 34:41 Poem 10 ‘Pheasant’ 36:53 Conclusion

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For the full transcript, follow this link: https://www.studyclix.ie/leaving-certificate/english/higher/created-by-studyclix/the-plath-podcast-a-guide-for-leaving-cert-english-students

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