Cuts and Scrapes, Bruises and Tragedies
[Note: Right after I wrote the first draft of this, some friends had the tragedy of losing their daughter. Suddenly, everything I’d written seemed so dumb, and so this has been revised to honor my friends in their grief] What a busy summer! I don’t know if it is Mercury retrograde or just decompression from such […]
“Pursuit”: The Black Marauder of Imperialist France
Political cartoon illustrating France’s imperial lust Most assume that Plath wrote the predatory poem “Pursuit” for Ted Hughes. In her journals, Plath privately acknowledged that this poem is about “the dark forces of lust.” She hardly consoled her mother in a letter too, writing that it represented “the terrible beauty of death,” and the paradox […]