Being pregnant

.Sylvia Plath wrote this poem in 1960, while she was pregnant with her first child, Frieda.In a sense, it is not a description in full of the experience of being pregnant, but rather of the experience of imagining the baby that she is carrying. And, since it is written by a brilliant poet, both the imagination and the command of language are out of the ordinary. However, what is transmitted by the imagery is a powerful...

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