Sylvia Plath
1932-1963 / Female / American
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Mad Girl's Love Song
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
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I lift my lids and all is born again.
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(I think I m
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Love Is A Parallax
'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy:
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train tracks always meet, not here, but only
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in the imp
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Three Women
A Poem for Three Voices
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Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about
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FIRST VOICE:
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I am slow as th
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The Rival
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
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You leave the same impression
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Of something beautiful
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Monologue At 3 AM
Better that every fiber crack
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and fury make head,
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blood drenching vivid
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couch, carpet, floor /
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Stillborn
These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
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They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
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The
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A Life
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
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This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
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Here's ye
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Jilted
My thoughts are crabbed and sallow,
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My tears like vinegar,
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Or the bitter blinking yellow
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Of an
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Wintering
This is the easy time, there is nothing doing.
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I have whirled the midwife's extractor,
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I have my
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Love Letter
Not easy to state the change you made.
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If I'm alive now, then I was dead,
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Though, like a stone,
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