Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963 / Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts)

poet Sylvia Plath
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A Life

Touch 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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  • Shoshana Green (3/2/2009 2:30:00 PM)

    Beauty's pain gives her name, her light in flame, her death is fame.

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  • T Gage (2/14/2008 8:54:00 AM)

    She is an insane genius!

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  • Leonard Daranjo (6/13/2007 1:26:00 AM)

    Great imagery. I lover the last stanza - especially the line 'The future is a grey seagull'. Reminds me of a seagul I saw in Brighton on one dull rainy day.

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  • Maya Morales (4/4/2007 6:34:00 PM)

    this poem is great but I think it needs more of a big idea and a theme

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