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 ...

The six Sylvia Plath poems ... Ms. Ruden has over other Plath biographers, even Heather Clark, is her way of concisely balancing the work and the life, so that both can be weighed on an even scale.

“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.

Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath ... head in “Dialogue Over a Ouija Board,” the first poem Plath had written in six months. She found the form ...