sylvia plath — Writing

Sylvia Plath's Diary

The young writer, Sylvia Plath, is, like many teenagers overflowing with a heightened sense of now. ‘Now, now is the perfect time of my life.’ ‘Now’ is the magical present brimming with possibility…

Sally BayleyAugust 2, 2026Sally Bayley, sylvia plath, diaryComment

Sylvia Plath's 'Gulliver'

There is a prevailing myth that Sylvia Plath is a poet of confession. Far from it. She is a poet of evasion and effacement…

Sally BayleyJune 29, 2026Sally Bayley, sylvia plath, confession, gulliverComment

Sylvia Plath's 'The Moon and the Yew Tree'

This emotional outburst of a line comes towards the end of Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Moon and the Yew Tree,’ a poem which dramatises a carefully released, carefully pacedcry for existential hope…