Teenage Sylvia Plath’s First Tragic Poem, with a Remembrance by Her Mother

"Once a poem is made available to the public, the right of interpretation belongs to the reader." “Darker emotions may well put on the mask of quite unworldly things,” Sylvia Plath observed in a BBC interview shortly before she took her own life. But the seed of those dark emotions started sprouting many years earlier, when Plath was still a teenager — quite a common life-stage for the first onset of depression.
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