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The Women of South Asia Sing Their Defiance In this weekend s Verse Affairs , an anthology of poems that embodies women s struggle to escape the maleness of language, and the world itself A protest against violence on women, in the aftermath of Hathras. Photo: PTI Women07/Mar/2021 In her poem ‘Tulips’, Sylvia Plath describes the emotional contours of a person recovering from an unknown operation in a sterile hospital room. Her husband, Ted Hughes, claimed she had written it while recovering from an appendectomy; other scholars have found the shadow of a previous miscarriage and hospitalisation in the poem. The invalid in the poem has received a bouquet of red tulips she doesn’t want – it prevents her from sinking into an anaesthetised oblivion, which is the only relief from physical and emotion pain for her. “I have no face, I have wanted to efface myself,” she writes. I was 16 years old when I first read this poem and immediately realised I could experience the t

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