Barren Woman

Sylvia Plath * Track #44 On Ariel

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Sylvia Plath

1965

Barren Woman by Sylvia Plath

Performed by

Sylvia Plath

Produced by

Ted Hughes

Writed by

Sylvia Plath

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‘Barren women’ details how the narrator is in a state of emptiness, likening herself to a deserted space, a museum to be precise. There’s a fountain which reuses the same water alluding to the fact that the narrator cannot produce new life, imagining herself as a mother is unthinkable.
She has been...

Barren Woman Annotated

Empty, I echo to the least footfall,
Museum without statues, grand with pillars, porticoes, rotundas.
In my courtyard a fountain leaps and sinks back into itself,
Nun-hearted and blind to the world. Marble lilies
Exhale their pallor like scent.

I imagine myself with a great public,
Mother of a white Nike and several bald-eyed Apollos.
Instead, the dead injure me attentions, and nothing can happen.
Blank-faced and mum as a nurse.

Barren Woman Q&A

Who wrote Barren Woman's ?

Barren Woman was written by Sylvia Plath.

Who produced Barren Woman's ?

Barren Woman was produced by Ted Hughes.

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