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Apr 06, 2009 08:44

I hope this follows community rules, if nto please delete, but this quote or poem by Sylvia has been lingering in my mind and I cant find it anywhere so I was wondering if you guys could help me. It was talking about how there are two women in her, one that longs for a family and one that was a free spirit....it basically just talked about how ( Read more... )

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3treekisser April 6 2009, 13:15:22 UTC

Are you talking about 'Two Sisters of Persephone'? http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/2sisters.html

__stereotherapy April 6 2009, 16:17:10 UTC

no thats not it although thank you for responding! it was just a paragraph of 4 or 5 lines that started out something like "There are two women..." or i am of two women... agh i dont know. but thanks anyway!

3treekisser April 6 2009, 19:30:44 UTC

Hmmm. I doubt it's from her poems then ('Three Women' is, well, three). Could be The Bell Jar -- the fig tree scene comes to mind, and she does talk a lot about that sort of thing in the novel.

Haven't read her journals yet so not sure if they came from there, sorry!

suede April 6 2009, 16:16:11 UTC

maybe you mean in plaster?

suede April 6 2009, 18:19:23 UTC

the poem ( ... )

two of course there were two jlionheart April 9 2009, 08:41:09 UTC

that poem was about a woman in a plaster cast sivvy met while she was in the hospital (there is much more about it in her journals, I remember). The specific quote about two women may indeed come from there ... I would tell you for sure, but my copies of her books aren't with me at present.

richips April 6 2009, 16:42:28 UTC

are you talking about the fig tree metaphor in the Bell Jar?

__stereotherapy April 6 2009, 16:54:17 UTC

no but that is definitely similar and absolutely lovely