Sylvia Plath – One Book a Week

Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar Book Review

Trigger warning: scenes contain suicide, thoughts of self-harm and detailed thoughts on depression. I have never read such a good introspective work musing on the nature of life, lack of purpose, sinking into depression, analysis of psychological treatments of mental disorders in the middle of the 20th century and such detailed thoughts of suicide thatContinue reading “Sylvia Plath * The Bell Jar Book Review”

Quotes from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Here we’ll explore quotes from The Bell Jar, an influential modern novel that took mental illness head on in a chronicle both terrifying and tender. The Bell Jar wasn’t published in the U.S. until 1971, in accordance with the wishes of Ted Hughes, to whom she had been married at the time of her deathContinue reading “Quotes from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath”

Tulips BY SYLVIA PLATH

The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly As the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions. I have given my name and myContinue reading “Tulips BY SYLVIA PLATH”

The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath

Who are these people at the bridge to meet me? They are the villagers– The rector, the midwife, the sexton, the agent for bees. In my sleeveless summery dress I have no protection, And they are all gloved and covered, why did nobody tell me? They are smiling and taking out veils tacked to ancientContinue reading “The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath”

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath * Poetry

A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.