Sylvia Plath
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Topic: Sylvia Plath
Posted By: Asyte2c00
Subject: Sylvia Plath
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 15:29
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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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Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:09
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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 |
Posted By: Raff
Date 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. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 16:20
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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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Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: January 11 2007 at 19:10
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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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Posted By: Asyte2c00
Date Posted: January 12 2007 at 18:35
| She's Interesting. |
Posted By: Psychedelia
Date Posted: January 16 2007 at 16:12
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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. ------------- Another emotional suicide, overdosed on sentiment and pride |
Posted By: Publius
Date Posted: January 18 2007 at 07:52
How bitterly ironic, she gassed herself in the end. ------------- I'm so prog, I clap in 9/8 |
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