This edition of New Year's Eve poetry features two poems, Thomas Hardy's "New Year's Eve" and Sylvia Plath's "New Year on Dartmoor." Beneath the difference in style and perspective -- Hardy's poem was written in 1906, when he was approaching seventy; Plath's is believed to have been written at the end of 1961, some thirteen months before her suicide at the age of thirty -- is the same pause over the mysteriousness of the moment. ... FULL STORY »
