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Sylvia Plath Since her death, and more especially since the publications of her posthumous collections of poetry, Sylvia Plath has become a legendary figure and, like so many such figures, inspires other writers to write about her. The woman who learned the craft of poetry the hard way, playing with words and sentence structures, has become a muse in her own right. As more and more of her writing becomes available – the poems, the journals, …

…celebration, this is. Out of a gap A million soldiers run, Redcoats, every one. Whose side are they on? O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. Saboteur, Kamikaze man - The stain on your Gauze Ku Klux Klan Babushka Darkens and tarnishes and when The balled Pulp of your heart Confronts its small Mill of silence How you jump---- Trepanned veteran, Dirty girl, Thumb stump.