What riches!
A newly-discovered poem by Sylvia Plath has been published by Blackbird, an online journal of literature and the arts. Written when she was an undergraduate at Smith College, it "germinated from Plath's creative response to The Great Gatsby..." -
(And yes, of course, this is Daisy:"blase princesses indict/tilts at terror as downright absurd.")
Blackbird has decided to publish it "to recognize and celebrate the disciplined hard work she put into her early writing." Click to read the whole poem, and to see two early typescripts.
Ennui -
Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
designing futures where nothing will occur...
I am so delighted that I don't even want to think yet! I just want to bask for awhile and reread "The Beast in the Jungle," which informs yet another allusive line ("The beast in Jamesian grove will never jump..."). Who can read that story and not shudder?
melanie
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Ennui, in 14 lines, connects Sylvia Plath's loneliness, despair, and frustration with Henry James; F. Scott Fitzgerald (and Zelda); the Christians in the arena and the Romans; God and angels; and knights, dragons, and princesses.
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