text: Some of Plath 's feminist defenders say Hughes ' lax and digressive verses serve mostly to remind us of what a great poet she was ( Katha Pollitt , the New York Times Book Review ) . Hughes ' defenders use the occasion to restate their case against Plath 's Her poetry was humorless and hyperbolic and would not be remembered had she not committed suicide .
  
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  Plath was a film maker .