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Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

Sylvia Plath's "Gold Mouths Cry"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

November 13, 202410m 43s

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Show Notes

In today’s poem, Plath (who died at 30) contrasts the transience of youth and nature with the seeming permanence of art and artifice. (I even make time for a brief shout-out to a not-so-transitory Golden Mouth.) Happy reading.



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