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; / I lift my lids and all is born again. / (I think I made you up inside my head.)
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Love Is A Parallax'Perspective betrays with its dichotomy: / train tracks always meet, not here, but only / in the impossible mind's eye;
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Three WomenA Poem for Three Voices / Setting: A Maternity Ward and round about / FIRST VOICE:
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The RivalIf the moon smiled, she would resemble you. / You leave the same impression / Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
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Monologue At 3 AMBetter that every fiber crack / and fury make head, / blood drenching vivid
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StillbornThese poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis. / They grew their toes and fingers well enough, / Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
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A LifeTouch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, / This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. / Here's yesterday, last year ---
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JiltedMy thoughts are crabbed and sallow, / My tears like vinegar, / Or the bitter blinking yellow
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WinteringThis is the easy time, there is nothing doing. / I have whirled the midwife's extractor, / I have my honey,
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Love LetterNot easy to state the change you made. / If I'm alive now, then I was dead, / Though, like a stone, unbothered by it,
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