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Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea

Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea
by Sylvia Plath
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Rhyme schemeABAB (slant rhyme)
Publication date1955 (1955)
Lines24

"Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" is a poem written by Sylvia Plath that was first published in 1955, the year she graduated from Smith College summa cum laude.[1] An abstract poem about an absent lover, it uses clear, vivid language to describe seaside scenery, with "a grim insistence" on reality rather than romance and imagination.[2][3][4][5]

The poem was awarded a 1955 Glascock Prize[1] and appeared in Mademoiselle in August 1955, accompanying an article about the prize.[6]: 163 

Plath used "Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea" as the title poem of a collection she submitted unsuccessfully to the Yale Series of Younger Poets,[2][6][7] and as a working title for the collection that was eventually published as The Colossus.[2] But Plath later came to be critical of the poem; in 1958 she mentioned it as an example of the "old crystal-brittle and sugar-faceted voice" that she wanted to move past.[8][9][10]

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  4. ^ Roudeau, Cecile (2004–2005). "Crossing the Voice, Crisscrossing the Text: Writing at the Intersection of Prose and Poetry in Sylvia Plath's "Sunday at the Mintons'"" (PDF). RSA. 15–16. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  5. ^ "Sylvia Plath's Days of Hope". Newspapers.com. The Sydney Morning Herald. May 28, 1988. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  6. ^ a b Alexander, Paul (March 17, 2009). Rough Magic: A Biography Of Sylvia Path. Hachette Books. ISBN 978-0-7867-3025-4. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  7. ^ Pollak, Vivian R. (2005). "Moore, Plath, Hughes, and "The Literary Life"". American Literary History. 17 (1): 95–117. doi:10.1093/alh/aji004. ISSN 0896-7148. JSTOR 3567994. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  8. ^ Hammer, Langdon (2001). "Plath's Lives". Representations. 75 (1): 61–88. doi:10.1525/rep.2001.75.1.61. ISSN 0734-6018. JSTOR 10.1525/rep.2001.75.1.61. Retrieved December 30, 2022.
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sagar The Laughter of Foxes 55 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Plath, Sylvia (January 16, 2013). The Journals of Sylvia Plath. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-307-83039-5. Retrieved December 30, 2022.

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