In her third column installment, Burtner draws on Sylvia Plath’s ‘sad girl poetry’ to understand the political madness of 2024.

Sylvia Plath: The Iconic Sad Girl. Clip: Season 4 ... Delving into the poem that’s survived re-reading longer than the Bible and Shakespeare. (7m 54s) Kaki King: Notes and Colours.

Most women are gazed at; she gazes. She is a Sad Girl, claiming our sympathy, but her longing contains something malignant, ... These lines summon “The Silken Tent,” a poem by Robert Frost, ...