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mothprincess · 1 year

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Sylvia Plath, from “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Ariel

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gennsoup · 1 month

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I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars.

Sylvia Plath, The Moon and the Yew Tree

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petaltexturedskies · 1 year

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Sylvia Plath, from the moon and the yew tree

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typewriter-worries · 1 year

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The Moon and the Yew Tree, Tory Dent

[ Text ID: How I would like to believe in / tenderness --- ]

#what we define as human tenderness troubles each of us differently #the moon and the yew tree #tory dent #poetry #my upload #on tenderness #literature #quotations #dark academia #classic academia #light academia

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llovelymoonn · 2 years

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some of my favourite poems i've read this month:

emily jungmin yoon bell theory

sumita chakraborty dear, beloved

s.j. fowler violence on the internet

david bromwich separate dwelling

a.m. sullivan symbols for deceit

g.e. murray arts of a cold sun: "long story short"

john murillo upon reading that eric dolphy transcribed even the calls of certain species of birds,

tory dent the moon and the yew tree

alice fulton personally engraved

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ozornalldead · 1 year

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Suzuki Harunobu, Hares and Autumn Full Moon, Edo Period; Sylvia Plath, “The Moon and the Yew Tree”, 1961; Richard Adams, Watership Down, 1972; The Moon and the Yew Tree, Anthony Cockayne, 2014

#sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree #richard adams #watership down #anthony cockayne #yew tree #web weave #yeah this is the entirety of the poem compared to passages from watership down what of it #long post #suzuki harunobu #hares and autumn full moon #web weaving

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whisperthatruns · 2 years

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The Moon and the Yew Tree

This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. The grasses unload their griefs on my feet as if I were God, Prickling my ankles and murmuring of their humility. Fumey, spiritous mists inhabit this place Separated from my house by a row of headstones. I simply cannot see where there is to get to.

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here. Twice on Sunday, the bells startle the sky--- Eight great tongues affirming the Resurrection. At the end, they soberly bong out their names.

The yew tree points up. It has a Gothic shape. The eyes lift after it and find the moon. The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary. Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls. How I would like to believe in tenderness--- The face of the effigy, gentled by candles, Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering Blue and mystical over the face of the stars. Inside the church, the saints will all be blue, Floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews, Their hands and faces stiff with holiness. The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild. And the message of the yew tree is blackness---blackness and silence.

Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (HarperCollins, 2004)

#sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree #ariel #ariel: the restored edition #ariel: the restored edition: a facsimile of plath's manuscript reinstating her original selection and arrangement #poetry

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puresephone · 2 years

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“How I would like to believe in tenderness.” — Sylvia Plath

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mothprincess · 1 year

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Sylvia Plath, from “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Ariel

#quotes #poetry #sylvia plath #the moon and the yew tree #ariel

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leftit · 2 years

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Sylvia Plath's draft of "The Moon and the Yew Tree" from Ariel

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petaltexturedskies · 6 months

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The eyes lift after it and find the moon. The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary. Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls. How I would like to believe in tenderness – The face of the effigy, gentled by candles, Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.

An excerpt from “The Moon and the Yew Tree” by Sylvia Plath

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sdheath · 5 days

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