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    Mad Girl's Love Song

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    The speaker expresses how closing their eyes causes the external world to disappear, but opening them brings it back to life. However, the person they dreamt of and loved now feels imaginary, as they have forgotten their name and grown old waiting for their return, realizing they may have just created this person in their mind. In the end, the speaker wishes they had loved a thunderbird instead, which does return each spring, unlike the imagined lover.

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    The speaker expresses how closing their eyes causes the external world to disappear, but opening them brings it back to life. However, the person they dreamt of and loved now feels imaginary, as they have forgotten their name and grown old waiting for their return, realizing they may have just created this person in their mind. In the end, the speaker wishes they had loved a thunderbird instead, which does return each spring, unlike the imagined lover.

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    The speaker expresses how closing their eyes causes the external world to disappear, but opening them brings it back to life. However, the person they dreamt of and loved now feels imaginary, as they have forgotten their name and grown old waiting for their return, realizing they may have just created this person in their mind. In the end, the speaker wishes they had loved a thunderbird instead, which does return each spring, unlike the imagined lover.

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    Mad Girl's Love Song

    by Sylvia Plath
    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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