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Article: Sylvia Plath: three bee notes. (Essays).(the influence of bees on Sylvia Plath)(Critical Essay)
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- June 22, 2003
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Like Otto Plath, Adolf Hitler's father, Alois Hitler, was a student of bees. He may have published on the subject in a technical journal. Outside of work and family, beekeeping was his main interest. This information was in circulation during Sylvia Plath's lifetime, before she wrote her bee poems. In a volume of reminiscences published in 1953, for instance, Adolf Hitler was quoted as recalling that, because of his father's nearby beehives, "To be stung by a bee in our family was an ordinary, everyday occurrence" (Smith 45). The subject was also covered in Franz Jetzinger's 1956 Hitlers Jugend, published in English in 1958 as Hitler's Youth (cited in Smith 45).
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