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the blood jet is poetry: a logophile's guide to plath

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A selection of frequent or favourite words from Sylvia Plath's Collected Poems, as part of my bid to read them all. Quotes can be found on each citation page.
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3 months ago ofravens said:

yarb: That's a gorgeous line; I'd forgotten it. It's from "Poppies in October." :)

3 months ago yarb said:

My favourite line of Plath: "in a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers". From Ariel but I forget which one.

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