In 2017, one of Sylvia Plath's private letters ... were reliving the process of delivering a lost child too soon. And the final line of the poem – "The constriction killing me also" – points ...

Sylvia Plath long ago reached ... us the original interruption in the poem was sexual. But Plath changed it to a maternal distraction — “The child’s cry / Melts in the wall.” ...

In Emily Van Duyne’s Loving Sylvia Plath she asks if we can fully ... poet who openly accused Hughes of violence against Plath in a poem called “Arraignment” (a poem that was censored ...

It is fifty years since Sylvia ... Plath took these essentially languorous, and deeply male, associations and added her own stopwatch urgency. Here is “Ariel,” her great title poem, in its ...

“A red / Shred” in the child’s “little fist.” “Edge” expresses a bitter but nevertheless peaceful acceptance: “We have come so far, it is over.” NOTHING CHANGED IN SYLVIA PLATH ...

I was 17 when I first read "The Fig Tree" by Sylvia Plath ... like a giddy child on Christmas day examining unopened presents. And then I read this poem. And I stopped spinning.

Ariel’s opening poem, Morning Song, addresses a child at the moment of its birth ... more complex and with a greater power to transform. Sylvia Plath remains one of the few poets whose work ...