ohh no. It really depends on what you do with the texts really - like in Ext 1 someone used novel, novel, poem, poem, and it worked rather well. And Plath's stuff is kind of integral to the prescribed texts - [revamped post so it reads more fluently] There are inherent connections between (and in some instances Hughes actually based his poems around these sources)Loz#1 said:Last year we got told if you're studying a poem, your related material should be a different medium. But I don't know.
Poems
Hughes/Plath
Sam - Whiteness I Remember and Sam
Red - Tulips, Nick and the Candlestick...
The Minotaur and The Shot - Daddy and Lady Lazarus
Try to do wide reading, i.e. read some of the other poems in BL such as The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother where he refers to Nick and Frieda as 'orphans/beside the corpse of their mother' check it, I'm not sure.
Photographs
The two I remember poignantly is the one with Plath with blond hair on a beach, kneeling and smiling at the camera - seductive, glamorous - hiding her depression behind that Hollywood mask, and another with brown hair, married to Hughes - image of marital bliss, also deceptive. Can be found easily on google. Also one with Sylvia and Nick - relate to Red and her poems on how his birth changed her life, for the better.
Journal entries
Plath's that is. There two versions, one edited by Hughes and another by Kukil I think it is. The Hughes one is fairly biased - abridged version.
There is a journal entry of Plath's dealing with her missing Sassoon at the Parisian pension, which goes well with Hughes' Your Paris
Plath's novel the Bell Jar would be helpful if you wanted to use alternative mediums.
Biography
There are various bios of Plath around, with different views on the controversy. I used Anne Stevenson's (leans toward Hughes though she tries to present a balanced view) for my assessment task.