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Unread 12-16-2023, 10:31 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is offline
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Shaun, I don't for a moment think that Plath believed she was setting down a factual account of her experiences. The poems you mentioned are sheer mythmaking, and brilliant in their images and imagination. Myth was always created as a way to make sense of reality, but it is not the same thing as realism.

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