Sunday, September 11, 2005

At my most beautiful. (heh)

Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath. Mad Girl’s love song.

This is in Villanelle Form by the way. Haha, my friend’s doing the Lit SATS and apparently they ask for crazy things like that. It’s form is incredibly complicated. Along the line of ABCCBAABC and so on, the last line’s ABCC. Why on earth would any decent 18-year-old know that?

1 Comments:

Blogger hullabaloo said...

i generally dislike plath, but this is really, really quite lovely.

But i grow old and i forget your name./ (I think i made you up inside my head.)

brilliant! it's a little tragic and a little funny but mostly just true.

--soumya

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