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This reads as a call for imagination that has been tested by experience. It suggests that real hope is not naive, but shaped after disappointment, when illusions have fallen away and a clearer kind of belief can be made. It lands for someone rebuilding a sense of purpose after a letdown, when optimism needs to be honest to last.
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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 Her Collected Poems appeared in 1981 with previously unpublished work, and that collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1982, awarded to her posthumously.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