A miniature madtalent? Sylvia Plath,

一个微缩的疯天才？西尔维娅·普拉斯，

who'll wipe off the spit of your integrity,

谁会抹去你的操守吐出的痰，

rising in the saddle to slash at Auschwitz,

从马鞍里升起，对着奥斯维辛猛砍，

life tearing this or that, I am a woman?

生活撕裂着这个那个，我是个女人？

Who'll lay the graduate girl in marriage,

谁在婚姻里会睡一个女研究生，

queen bee, naked, unqueenly, shaming her shame?

蜂后，赤裸、没有女王范儿，羞辱其羞耻？

Each English major saying, "I am Sylvia,

每个英语专业学生都声称“我便是西尔维娅，

I hate marriage, I must hate babies."

我憎恶婚姻，我必须憎恨小孩。”

Even men have a horror of giving birth,

甚至男人也都有生小孩的恐惧，

mother-sized babies splitting us in half,

妈妈级尺寸的婴儿将我们一劈两开，

sixty thousand American infants a year,

每年，美国就有六万婴儿，U.I.D.了,

U.I.D., Unexplained Infant Deaths,

无法解释的婴儿死，他们出生时

born physically whole and hearty, refuse to live,

体格完好、血气旺盛，可就是拒绝活下去，

Sylvia...the expanding torrent of your attack.

西尔维娅……你的攻击是日渐扩张的洪涛。