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Sylvia Plath / Ted Hughes: Poets
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Plath was an intense, extraordinarily talented human who was hyper-sensitive to the world, to the universe in which she lived. She, like most poets, had to do battle with her muse which was like a multi-laned highway of sensory awareness and perception going in all kinds of directions that included ritual, biology, forces of nature and the supernatural, charged with the forces of life and death. These elements and more intersected in her being and she took on the herculean task, through her talent of perception, of taming them into the expression of poetry.
To add, she was acutely aware of her past, what it had and had not given her, explained by her complex relationship with her father. Hughes, was something of a bystander, a witness to this unique flame of life called Sylvia Plath but was often blamed for her demise. The ability to so completely juxtapose such intense yet delicate sensibilities, reversing, modifying, invoking then causing to disappear high voltage, bitter-sweet perceptions, was her unique talent.
The orchestra which she conducted had instruments in it which she invented and only she knew how to play.
But it came at an awful price.
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