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The Daily Poem

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

Nov 13, 2024
10:43

In today’s poem, Plath (who died at 30) contrasts the transience of youth and nature with the seeming permanence of art and artifice. (I even make time for a brief shout-out to a not-so-transitory Golden Mouth.) Happy reading.



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