It's not just for pirates and/or those of questionable moral values.
Check out this original student film I found on youtube. It's art set to an original dramatic reading of Emily Dickinson's I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died.
I've also embedded a video with voice over of Plath herself reading Daddy, which is appropriately titled Sylvia Plath Reads "Daddy" and was posted on youtube.com by mishima1970 approximately one month ago, and has already been viewed nearly 4,000 times.
This is something I would love to do with my students. You could also have them create original work.
With Plath, I've always hoped to pair some of her poems with either Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 or The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. They explain a lot of the background behind her poems. Particular journal entries can even be paired with some of the poems to explain where her ideas came from.
For example, if I remember correctly Letters Home tells about a plaster cast that was made of her head, which was the inspiration for In Plaster. It was only after reading the letter she wrote to her mother about it that the poem seemed to hold real meaning for me.
Anyway, enjoy the videos, it's definitely a resource I'll be considering in the future.
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