Teacher Guide

Mad Girl's Love Song Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Students might read more of Plath's poems—including the collections The Colossus and Ariel—as well as her novel, The Bell Jar.

They might consider reading other American confessional poets, either Plath's mentors and contemporaries like Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, and John Berryman, or those who inherit the poetic tradition, like Sharon Olds and Marie Howe.

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