Monday, January 13, 2003

A Life Comments

Rating: 3.0

Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here's yesterday, last year ---
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
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Sylvia Plath
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Mousumee pullen 28 February 2018

Amazing writing

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Shoshana Green 02 March 2009

Beauty's pain gives her name, her light in flame, her death is fame.

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T Gage 14 February 2008

She is an insane genius!

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Leonard Daranjo 13 June 2007

Great imagery. I lover the last stanza - especially the line 'The future is a grey seagull'. Reminds me of a seagul I saw in Brighton on one dull rainy day.

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Maya Morales 04 April 2007

this poem is great but I think it needs more of a big idea and a theme

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Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
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