There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.

She’d been dead for a week. I scanned the stacks of books teetering against one wall, not on shelves but layered like bricks, and a slim off-white spine called to me: Sylvia Plath’s "Ariel." ...

Sylvia Plath was an American poet of the mid-20th century who killed herself at age 30. She was married to British poet laureate Ted Hughes, but the poem does not portray relationship or love.

“Plath was miserable, but she created art, and the skirt is a representation of that struggle.” For now, Devers is wearing it around the house, and in Instagram photos.

A new look at Sylvia Plath focuses on her violent marriage The Boston-born poet’s 1963 suicide cut short a brilliant career. By Wendy Smith Globe correspondent, Updated July 9, 2024, 12:30 p.m.