Read full poem →initials and dashes to protect the privacy of living individuals. In two places, six
sentences have been omitted (for a total of twelve omitted sentences). Ellipses
that appear in the text were made by Sylvia Plath.
Dictionary Entry
A closed curve, the locus of a point such that the sum of the distances from that point to two other fixed points (called the foci of the ellipse) is constant; equivalently, the conic section that is the intersection of a cone with a plane
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. ellipsesellipses two
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Poetry examples for “ellipses”
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