“Sylvia Plath –interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality”.
–Woody Allen
Sylvia Plath is without a doubt one of the figures of twentieth century literature that has left us with a legacy that prevails with the passing of the time. Though she might not be as celebrated as some of her contemporaries, she was one of the leading poets of her time. From a young age she was committed to her craft and passion for words, a practice that continued until her untimely death. But like other artists, Plath also experimented with other creative endeavors, since she understood that artistic expression is not limited to one medium. The poet experimented with drawing techniques for some time, a period relatively unknown until now.
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In the book Sylvia Plath: Drawings(2013), the poet’s daughter presents us with a side to Plath we’d never seen before: the illustrator. The book also features letters written by the poet, where she demonstrated her interest in sketching and her ever present love for art.
The drawings are from the time when Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes got married in secret while she lived in Cambridge. Plath’s initial intention was to experiment with the technique she’d mastered over the years. But later on, as described in one of the letters, she admitted she would have been interested in having her drawings published in the New Yorker.
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Cows, nuts, flowers, shows, and umbrellas are part of the simple drawings the writer and poet made. Her intriguing and interesting sketches were not published until fifty years after her death.
Translated by María Suárez
