Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Mad Girl’s Love Song

Sylvia-plath

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Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath

Release Date
Sat Aug 01 1953
Performed by
Sylvia-plath
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Written while Plath was still in college, Mad Girl’s Love Song is a partial concessionary, partial heartbreak poem.

This poem is in the strict villanelle form, with many vivid personifications.

Mad Girl’s Love Song Annotated

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.)

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Sylvia-plath released Mad Girl’s Love Song on Sat Aug 01 1953.

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