silvia-plath

  • Lady Lazarus by Silvia Plath

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    I’ve read The Bell Jar, https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2018/09/03/sylvia-plaths-the-bell-jar-to-the-person-in-the-bell-jar-blank-and-stopped-as-a-dead-baby-the-world-itself-is-the-bad-dream/  and I admire the poetry of Silvia Plath (1932-63). But I haven’t read all of Ariel, and a series of radio programmes has introduced me to poems that I didn’t know, including Lady Lazarus. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zghg The radio series concentrates on her writing. Those who made the series worry that…

  • You’re by Silvia Plath

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    At the moment our daughter is 36 weeks pregnant, and I inevitably thought of her when this morning I read this poem by Silvia Plath (1932-1962) describing the fetus in her womb. I find it an arresting poem with wonderful images: “Wrapped up in yourself like a spool”; “Snug as a bud and at home”;…