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There are many possible lives we could live but the use of Plath’s fig analogy to explore this idea is not quite right.
When I put myself in the shoes of the woman sitting atop the fig tree, I see so many things I want to accomplish. Sylvia Plath would have been 90 years old if she was still alive today. How much ...
Plath writes in the book that “wherever I sat — on the deck of a ship or at a street cafe in Paris or Bangkok — I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.” ...
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.
NORTHAMPTON — Sylvia Plath, the writer and poet whose 1963 novel “The Bell Jar” was a vanguard of second-wave feminism, is the core of a small but thoughtfully curated exhibit entitled ...
In “ Loving Sylvia Plath,” Emily Van Duyne doesn’t aim to compete directly with Clark or with the long roster of Plath’s previous biographers, including Edward Butscher, Ronald Hayman ...