Name of the work: Night Dance-Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath Creation Year: 20 15-20 16 Literary genre: Poet Author: Ocean Publishing House: Lijiang Publishing House Publication Date: 20 16 sylvia plath (Sylvia Plath,1932./kloc-0 She is sensitive by nature and has had suicide complex since she was a child. In her short life, she tried to end it many times. She is an influential representative poet and writer of American confessional poetry, and is regarded as the most important American poetess after Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop. Before his death, he published a collection of poems, The Giant and Other Poems, and an autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. After his death, her husband, ted hughes, edited and published Plath's poems Ai Lier, Crossing the Lake, Trees in Winter and Complete Poems of Sylvia Plath, which further established Plath's position as an important poet and expanded his literary influence. Nearly 20 years after his death, Plath was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for "changing the writing direction of American poetry". Her poems often contain multiple themes and extremely rich connotations. Some mercilessly expose the omnipresent evils of tyranny with sharp brushstrokes like scalpels, while others ridicule the powerful and show sympathy and care for the weak and enslaved workers. More works focus on exploring the female world and revealing the reality that women are overwhelmed. Even when writing daily life and ordinary subjects, Plath can give them rich and profound connotations and make them glow with extraordinary light. Plath's life experience and works provide us with many almost eternal topics: suicide complex, feminism, personality liberation, sex and love, marriage and family, freedom and totalitarianism, democracy and tyranny, the weak and the strong ... which still have profound practical significance today. The selected poems in this department include 465,438+0 poems in Ai Lier compiled by Plath himself before his death, 65,438+04 poems by her husband, British poet laureate ted hughes, and 65,438+03 other representative poems, totaling 68 poems. Translator Yuanyang, graduated from Wuhan University, is a poet, translator and member of Chinese Writers Association. He has published many poems, such as Love in Dabie Mountain, Hollow Village, etc. The poetic drama In the Name of Nightingale was broadcast on CCTV in June 2003. He has translated more than 20 poems that won Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize and Eliot Prize, and the translated poem Adam's Apple Orchard was selected as "20 14 China's Best Books List".