Sylvia Plath
All about Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
All about Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (30 years old) with her daughter Frieda Hughes in Cornwall in November 1962.
Sylvia Plath kept notebooks to keep track of her life. In a journal, she wrote:
It’s hopeless to “get life” if you don’t keep notebooks. I am angry now because, except for the snow, I forget what the trip from France to Munich was like.
Sylvia used both literary and visual arts to “get life” —to capture it, remember it, and turn it into art.
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... See moreAs usual I take more time filling up space with crazy drawings.
Sylvia Plath’s diary for October 11-12, 1946, Eye Rhymes, p.46
Sylvia Plath’s diary entry for June 21-22, 1947
Sylvia Plath’s sketch on a school assignment sheet. Eye Rhymes, p.193
Sylvia Plath
... See moreSì, il mio struggente desiderio di mescolarmi con ragazzi di strada, soldati, marinai e frequentatori di bar - di far parte della scena, ascoltatrice e testimone anonima - tutto è guastato dal fatto di essere una ragazza, una femmina, sempre in pericolo di essere violentata o aggredita. Il mio struggente interesse per gli uomini e la loro vita