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This can be taken to mean that excess desire sometimes hides a deeper exhaustion or emptiness. The line reads as a self-check, where wanting everything is not abundance but a sign that nothing feels truly satisfying. It lands when ambition turns restless, for example after reaching a goal and discovering that the chase has not brought relief.
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About Sylvia Plath
American poet and author
Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She helped shape confessional poetry and is best known for work that brought private experience into sharp literary focus. Her books include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death. Her Collected Poems appeared in 1981 with previously unpublished work, and that collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, awarded to her posthumously.
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Books by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
2006
Ariel
1965
Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
1975
The bed book
1976
Collected Poems
1981