Slyvia Plath interview

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2lMsVpRh5c

Check this out if you have the time. For anybody doesn't know much about her here's a detailed bio, or there's always wikipedia!

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/sylvia-plath

She was one of the standout confessional poets, a style I think is quite well represented here on PnQ. I always found her work interesting

Saddens me. I also liked the movie "Sylvia Trailer " with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Thanks

Her book is amazing as well. The bell Jar :)

I've always meant to but I've never read The Bell Jar.

Being Sylvia plath it's very sad but I would recommend it to anyone.

Relating to the above posts....

Something from The Bell Jar:

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 1971 by Harper & Row, Publishers.

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I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a laboratory jar for me to look at, I'd stop and look so hard I never forgot it.
I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that's the way I knew things were all the time.
- The Bell Jar, 10. Sylvia Plath.

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The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
- The Bell Jar, 15. Sylvia Plath.

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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
- The Bell Jar, 48. Sylvia Plath.

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That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
My mother's face puckered, and she looked ready to cry.
"But Esther, don't you remember what day it is today?"
"No."
I thought it might be Saint Valentine's day.
"It's your birthday."
And that was when I had dumped the roses in the wastebasket.
"That was a silly thing for her to do," I said to Doctor Nolan.
Doctor Nolan nodded. She seemed to know what I meant.
"I hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall.
But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much, and said, "I suppose you do."
- The Bell Jar, 166. Sylvia Plath.

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Those are all very well written. I.love the last one though. There is such dark tones it outstanding.

Actualy I did not care for that. too dead!!

I love Daddy though
in her voice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM

Sylvia Plath is one of my favorite writers, one I identify with. Sometime ago we had the Life Of A Poet series going under the topic Poetry Talk - Poetry Discussion. I did a thread on her and have included the link if anyone would like to check it out.

Life of a Poet - Sylvia Plath

http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/discussion/topic.html?topic_id=127941

That was interesting

my God, how deep, how far the experience of emptiness could go::
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIQojFKUfto