Poems
by Sylvia Plath
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"Clownlike, happiest on your hands,
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode.
Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,
Trawling your dark, as owls do.
Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools' Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.
Vague as fog and looked for like mail.
Farther off than Australia.
Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.
Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug.
A creel of eels, a...more
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense
Thumbs-down on the dodo's mode.
Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,
Trawling your dark, as owls do.
Mute as a turnip from the Fourth
Of July to All Fools' Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.
Vague as fog and looked for like mail.
Farther off than Australia.
Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.
Snug as a bud and at home
Like a sprat in a pickle jug.
A creel of eels, a...more
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Read in January, 2003
The editor for this collection of poems, Diane Middlebrook, was my professor in college, and we studied Plath for a time. Plath has since become my favorite poet, and I think this particular collection is a good representation of her body of work. She is detached and trying often to either make, sever, or understand a connection. Even when she's calling out to the reader from the darkest depths of wherever it is she writes (as in my personal favorite, "The Disquieting Muses"), there ar...more
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recommends it for:
fans of Plath
This little book has most of my favorite Plath poems in it. It's a perfect dose of Plath on the go. I take it every year to the ocean with me.
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I was given this book by a friend back in highschool. I really like her poetry and really found her works inspiring as a young writer back in the day. Still a fan.
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
depressing poetry lovers
memorizing so i can recite to myself on late night walks home.
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Read in January, 2003
Smoothing my flat life. Shimmering day by day.
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Read in January, 2004
recommends it for:
angry women
One of my favourite poets!
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Read in December, 2006
I love all things Plath!
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