>I have been re-assessing my views on Plath during this debate --
> (snip) For a 30 year-old it is indeed
>a tasteless way to behave. Like John Lennon's song 'Mother',
>it may have served as therapy . . . but Lennon at least had the
>simple decency to scream his head off.
For a further connection between Plath and Lennon, see 'Moraine', a poem
from Paul Farley's forthcoming second collection. Farley has worked out
that the morning of Plath's death coincides with the recording of certain
songs for the first Beatles LP at Abbey Road, a few hundred yards away.
Sylvia famously left milk out for her kids, Lennon during this session drank
milk constantly to soothe a sore throat.
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