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== Aftermath - [[Sylvia Plath]] ==

Compelled by calamity's magnet
They loiter and stare as if the house
Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought
Some scandal might any minute ooze
From a smoke-choked closet into light;
No deaths, no prodigious injuries
Glut these hunters after an old meat,
Blood-spoor of the austere tragedies.

Mother Medea in a green smock
Moves humbly as any housewife through
Her ruined apartments, taking stock
Of charred shoes, the sodden upholstery:
Cheated of the pyre and the rack,
The crowd sucks her last tear and turns away.

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==Aftermath von Sylvia Plath==

Gezwungen durch Magnet Unglück's
Sie bummeln und schauen, als ob das Haus
Burnt-out die ihrigen waren, oder als ob sie glaubten,
Einige Skandal könnte jede Minute Schlamm
Aus Rauch erstickten Schrank ins Licht;
Kein Mann, keine gewaltige Verletzungen
Glut die Jäger nach einem alten Fleisch,
Blut-Spur des strengen Tragödien.

Mutter Medea in einem grünen Kittel
Verschiebt demütig wie eine Hausfrau durch
Ihrem zerstörten Wohnungen, eine Bestandsaufnahme
Verkohlten Schuhe, die nassen Polster:
Betrogen und um den Scheiterhaufen und die Folter,
Die Menge saugt ihre letzte Träne und wendet sich ab.

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Am 11. Februar 1963 nahm sich Sylvia Plath das Leben.

Bereits zehn Jahre zuvor hatte sie einen Suizidversuch unternommen - eine Folge der Depression, gegen die sie - letzten Endes - vergeblich ankämpfte.

Die Behandlung in der Psychiatrie, ihre Gefühle - wie unter eine Glasglocke - verarbeitete sie in ihrem berühmten Roman.

https://saetzeundschaetze.com

==Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus==

I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it——

A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot

A paperweight,
My face a featureless, fine
Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?——

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me

And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments.
The peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand and foot——
The big strip tease.
Gentlemen, ladies

These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.

The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut

As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I’ve a call.

It’s easy enough to do it in a cell.
It’s easy enough to do it and stay put.
It’s the theatrical

Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:

‘A miracle!’
That knocks me out.
There is a charge

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart——
It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash—
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there——

A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

A representative selection of verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who left in the wake of her personal tragedy a legacy of poems that combine terrifying intensity and dazzling artistry. With their brutally frank self-exposure and emotional immediacy, Plath’s poems, from "Lady Lazarus" to "Daddy," have had an enduring influence on contemporary poetry. READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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