Sylvia Plath has a special place in my heart. Equal parts because of her talent and because of her tragic end. The heart is a lonely hunter... Part of me feels if she were alive today she would have found another way but we'll never know. For some reason I find a lot of beauty in tragedy... like its the dark that makes the light seem all the more brilliant. This led me to read her husbands collection Birthday Letters, essentially letters to his dead wife, which he wrote while terminally ill finally giving a voice to his side of the tragedy. Im unsure of the controversy surrounding the two but if you can see the beauty in ugly things its certainly worth a read.
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Sylvia Plath has a special place in my heart. Equal parts because of her talent and because of her tragic end. The heart is a lonely hunter... Part of me feels if she were alive today she would have found another way but we'll never know. For some reason I find a lot of beauty in tragedy... like its the dark that makes the light seem all the more brilliant. This led me to read her husbands collection Birthday Letters, essentially letters to his dead wife, which he wrote while terminally ill finally giving a voice to his side of the tragedy. Im unsure of the controversy surrounding the two but if you can see the beauty in ugly things its certainly worth a read.