One day she asked me why people on seeing her written name pronounced it rhyme with math.
"Why, how do you pronounce it?" I asked.
"Plaath," she said, and indeed I'd heard her say Plaath often enough.
After that reminder, I introduced her and spoke of her as Sylvia Plaath, until her name became famous as the math-rhyming Plath. But I have wondered how she came to Plaath. An American pronunciation of P-L-A-T-H is likely to keep the A short. Anf if it was the original German she was thinking of, then it would be closer to Plaat. (查看原文)
Once, early on in that long white winter, she told me about a short story she had just read and admired, praising it by saying, "It's very worked." If spontaneity was by then a virtue of poetry in her judgement, it was not necessarily so for composing prose. (查看原文)
还没人写过短评呢
还没人写过短评呢