One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. Photo by Bettmann/Getty Books Lists Sylvia Plath.
A lifetime is not long enough. Share Tweet Submit Pin. Nor youth to old age long enough. Sylvia Plath is an anomaly.
Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath's only novel, was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas.
Books on Sylvia Plath. Fast and free shipping free returns cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” — “Go out and do something. “Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?” — “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. Also poems inspired by Plath
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night … ” — “What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.” — “The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.” — “Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?” — “There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.” — “I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.” — “I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. The Bell Jar tells the story of a gifted young woman's mental breakdown beginning during a summer internship as a junior editor at a magazine in New York City in the early 1950s. And I am horribly limited.” — “There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.” —
It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.” — “So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. It was a good fight while it lasted. I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won’t matter when I rot underground. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. If you're not familiar with the poet, "Sylvia Plath: Drawings" might leave you wondering what all the fuss is about. And why do I want? And so life goes.” — “What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Plath was an excellent poet but is known to many for this largely autobiographical novel. Note: This bibliography is ordered by the following topics: general guides biographical material criticism on The Bell Jar criticism on the Poetry of Sylvia Plath other Some items may be listed more than once. They descended, and then they disappeared. Immortality and permanence be damned.
The novel is partially based on Plath's own life and has become a modern classic. Devotees of Plath are the principal audience for this book.
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