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Poll Question: Proggers Thoughts on Sylvia Plath and her work
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    Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:29
Sylvia Plath. 
 
Venerated Poet. 
 
Has Been Elevated to Iconic Satus following her suicide. 
 
Is she worth of this recognition?
 
 
I admire Sylvia Plath and enjoy many of her poems.  I belive she wrote many
 
memorable poems, although sometimes her language an be hackneyed and trite,
 
the message is always sincereand clear. 
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I like Sylvia Plath quite a lot but i find her work a little too consistently melodramatic. I remember a poem in which she compared her sadness to that of a Jew heading for a gas chamber.
Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:16
I remember my first encounter with her poetry, quite a long time ago... It was a poem called "The Moon and the Yew Tree", which impressed me quite a lot. After that, I got a book of her poems and her only novel, "The Bell Jar". I haven't read anything by her in years, though I still like her. However, it's true that her style can be somewhat overwrought, and that can be offputting for some.
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:20
I read the novel, terrifically beautiful, plus some poetry, which catched my impression.
 
also saw the movie, which pretty much impressed me.
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Points: 2099 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2007 at 19:10

Is melodrama a bad thing?

but some of her stuff is simply genius though, it some of her poems are marred with feminist sentiments that compromise the quality of the poem. 
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Points: 2099 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2007 at 18:35
She's Interesting. 
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Points: 238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2007 at 16:12
No i dont think it is necessarily a bad thing. Indeed i think that the melodrama of Plath's poetry is what makes a lot of it so intense and in many ways brilliant. I just feel that her deeply introspective and grandiose sentiments can become a little draining after a time. This is not to say she is not a rather good poet.
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Points: 382 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2007 at 07:52
Originally posted by Psychedelia Psychedelia wrote:

I like Sylvia Plath quite a lot but i find her work a little too consistently melodramatic. I remember a poem in which she compared her sadness to that of a Jew heading for a gas chamber.


How bitterly ironic, she gassed herself in the end.
    
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