Great Regulars: [Sylvia] Plath is haunted by the great brutalities

of the century--Dachau, Hiroshima: brutalities with which, despite the poetry, she was progressively less able to cope. Unlike Brueghel's lovers, Plath does turn to face the "desolation", and it destroys her.

Two Views of a Cadaver Room

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Two Views of a Cadaver Room

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