The laburnum tree (Laburnum anagyroides) is a tree which, in myth and legend, is associated with Aphrodite: and was an important symbol of the powerful Love Goddess and of love and security for the poet Sylvia Plath. She associated it with her beloved father, calling it "my father's bean tree" (Maenad, Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 133 [1]); and, in The Beekeeper's Daughter (Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 118 [2]Archived 12 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine), she captured the sensuous, sensual beauty of this "Golden Rain Tree" which, as a bringer of life and death, exhibits (she wrote admiringly) "a queenship no mother can contest". That also clarifies Maddy's comment on the way home about "golden drizzle" (Beckett, S., ‘'Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett'’ (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 36).
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The laburnum tree (Laburnum anagyroides) is a tree which, in myth and legend, is associated with Aphrodite: and was an important symbol of the powerful Love Goddess and of love and security for the poet Sylvia Plath. She associated it with her beloved father, calling it "my father's bean tree" (Maenad, Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 133 [1]); and, in The Beekeeper's Daughter (Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 118 [2]Archived 12 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine), she captured the sensuous, sensual beauty of this "Golden Rain Tree" which, as a bringer of life and death, exhibits (she wrote admiringly) "a queenship no mother can contest". That also clarifies Maddy's comment on the way home about "golden drizzle" (Beckett, S., ‘'Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett'’ (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 36).
The laburnum tree (Laburnum anagyroides) is a tree which, in myth and legend, is associated with Aphrodite: and was an important symbol of the powerful Love Goddess and of love and security for the poet Sylvia Plath. She associated it with her beloved father, calling it "my father's bean tree" (Maenad, Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 133 [1]); and, in The Beekeeper's Daughter (Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems, p 118 [2]Archived 12 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine), she captured the sensuous, sensual beauty of this "Golden Rain Tree" which, as a bringer of life and death, exhibits (she wrote admiringly) "a queenship no mother can contest". That also clarifies Maddy's comment on the way home about "golden drizzle" (Beckett, S., ‘'Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett'’ (London: Faber and Faber, 1984), p 36).
