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Sylvia Plath
(1932 - 1963 / Boston / United States)
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''Clownlike, happiest on your hands
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. You're (l. 1-3). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools' Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. You're (l. 7-9). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Right, like a well-done sum.
A clean slate, with your own face on.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. You're (l. 17-18). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. You're (l. 13-14). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Is there no way out of the mind?''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Apprehensions (1971).
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''White
Godiva, I unpeel—
Dead hands, dead stringencies.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Ariel (l. 19-21). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''God's lioness,
How one we grow,
Pivot of heels and knees!—''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Ariel (l. 3-6). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''I
Am the arrow,
The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red
Eye, the cauldron of morning.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Ariel (l. 26-31). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
Hanging their bluegreen bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese
screen.
The honey-feast of the berries has stunned them; t...
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Blackberrying (l. 15-17). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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Blackberries
Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes
Ebon in the hedges, fat
With blue-red juices. These they squander on my fingers.
I had not asked for such a blood sisterh...
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Blackberrying (l. 4-8). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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