Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath!
The prompt for last night's poetry session in An Tobar was Sylvia Plath and this is the one I went for. Said to be inspired by a Mike (Myron) Lots who stood her up on a date, it carries a different emotive charge than some of her later work. Published in the Smith Review where she attended college in Massachusetts in 1951 and later published in the Mademoiselle, a New York magazine in 1953, it was not included in any of her subsequent collections but was published as an afterword in The Bell Jar. I read somewhere that it was one of her favourite poems. Written in a villanelle form it is a beautiful poem.
Now I'm subject to correction on all of the above because previously the only poem I'd be familiar with was 'Daddy'. This was loaded by 'Illneas' and with thanks so a visit to youtube for the notes and comments and other info is a must.
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