Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
Sylvia Plath reflects on the challenges of capturing experiences in writing. She suggests that after an event occurs, it becomes difficult to accurately convey its true nature on paper. Writers often struggle with the balance of expression, which can lead them to either dramatize or downplay what has happened.
This struggle results in a representation that often fails to meet the writer's expectations. Plath emphasizes that regardless of effort, the final narrative tends to distort the original experience, highlighting the complexity of translating emotions and events into words.