Crossing the Water

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"Crossing the Water" is a posthumously published collection of poems by Sylvia Plath that showcases her stark, vivid imagery and evolving poetic voice in the years leading up to her death.

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Crossing the Water canonical 4
Crossing the Water (poem) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Sylvia Plath
compiledBy Ted Hughes
containsWork Blackberrying
Crossing the Water self-linksurface differs
surface form: Crossing the Water (poem)

In Plaster
Insomniac
The Babysitters
The Moon and the Yew Tree
The Surgeon at 2 a.m.
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
follows The Colossus and Other Poems
genre poetry
hasCriticalReception acclaimed
hasISBN 9780571090593
hasPageCount 64
hasPoeticStyle confessional poetry
hasTheme creative struggle
female experience
isolation
mental illness
transition
language English
literaryMovement confessionalism
Modernism
surface form: modernism
mediaType hardcover
paperback
notableFor evolving poetic voice
stark imagery
vivid imagery
originalPublicationMedium print
partOfBibliographyOf Sylvia Plath
precedes Winter Trees
publicationStatus posthumous
publicationYear 1971
publisher Faber and Faber
setting England
United States of America
surface form: United States
subjectMatter death
identity
nature
psychological struggle
timeOfWriting early 1960s

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Sylvia Plath notableWork Crossing the Water
Crossing the Water containsWork Crossing the Water self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Crossing the Water (poem)
Winter Trees relatedWork Crossing the Water
Sheep in Fog publishedIn Crossing the Water
Sheep in Fog collection Crossing the Water