english: In her first collection of poems, "The Colossus," she wrote of a feeling of nothingness: "white: it is a complexion of the mind.” At the same time, she found solace in nature, from “a blue mist” “dragging the lake,” to white flowers that “tower and topple,” to blue mussels “clumped like bulbs.” After "The Colossus" she  published "The Bell Jar," her only novel, which fictionalizes the time she spent  working for Mademoiselle magazine in New York during college.
non_english: U njenoj prvoj zbirci pesama, „Kolos”, pisala je o osećanju ništavila: „belo: to je ten uma.” Istovremeno, pronalazila je utehu u prirodi, od „modre magle” „koja se vuče po jezeru”, do belog cveća koje se „diže i obara”, do modrih dagnji „preklopljenih poput lukovica”. Nakon „Kolosa”, objavila je „Stakleno zvono”, svoj jedini roman, u kom je kroz fikciju opisala period tokom kog je radila za časopis „Madmoazel” dok je studirala u Njujorku.