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Tuesday, October 31, 2006 -  Sylvia Plath is ALIVE!!!


Wait, no she's not. Sorry. But, someone did find one of her unpublished poems recently. Anna Journey, a Virginia Commonwealth grad student who discovered the poem. This from the Gazette:

In her personal copy of Fitzgerald's book, Journey said, Plath wrote the phrase "L'Ennui" - boredom - next to a passage in which Jay Gatsby's love interest, Daisy Buchanan, complains, "I've been everywhere and seen everything and done everything."

"She was observing; her notes were creative, metaphorical reactions," Journey said of Plath. "She was riffing off of Fitzgerald's passages."

Journey said the poem - two original typed scripts with some of Plath's handwritten notes - contained the same themes as the notes Plath jotted in "Gatsby."

The 14-line sonnet opens:

Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,

designing futures where nothing will occur.


Plath, who committed suicide in 1963, at the age of 30, was an alumna of Smith College.

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