Slyvia Plath

Literally the most overrated female poet of all time.

Why don't they make kids learn actual good female poets like Boland?

She's pretty damn good. Lady Lazarus and Death & Co. are amazing. You can't argue someone is overrated when he produces a poem like:

Two, of course there are two.
It seems perfectly natural now ---
The one who never looks up, whose eyes are lidded
And balled? like Blake's.
Who exhibits

The birthmarks that are his trademark ---
The scald scar of water,
The nude
Verdigris of the condor.
I am red meat. His beak

Claps sidewise: I am not his yet.
He tells me how badly I photograph.
He tells me how sweet
The babies look in their hospital
Icebox, a simple

Frill at the neck
Then the flutings of their Ionian
Death-gowns.
Then two little feet.
He does not smile or smoke.

The other does that
His hair long and plausive
Bastard
Masturbating a glitter
He wants to be loved.

I do not stir.
The frost makes a flower,
The dew makes a star,
The dead bell,
The dead bell.

Somebody's done for.

Redpilled intellectual here.

Because their cultural marxists who want to breed out whiteness

garbage

>Boland
Fuck her and fuck the department of education for putting her on the leaving cert

>I am red meat.
that's some *raw* talent right there

Self-pity: the poet

false

Go back to your home, Sylvia!

Bell Jar is good tho

>Lady Lazarus
>amazing
Pick one

This.

>most overrated female poet of all time
Carol Ann Duffy says hi.

She's not bad. She's a more solipsistic, kitschy version of Roethke.

is that a) an actual postmortem picture, and b) sylvia's actual postmortem pic?

the human form collapsed in an oven cuts a far more brutal figure than I would have imagined

Everyone on this board is borderline retarded.

I get it, you're trying to not be so retarded after a life wasted on the internet...

this. We need more information.

Awesomely reasoned post there, OP.

Not the one who posted it, but as far as I know, it's real.

Also, I'm not crazy about her poetry, so o won't really defend it. I prefer more structured poems. That said, I did enjoy the Bell Jar and found the writing to be really simple and nice with lots interesting and fresh metaphors and similes.

I hated Plath when I was a teenage boy, I think it's a teenage boy sort of thing. The self-pity can be grating but she produced some really sound work. Insomnia is a masterpiece. First time I've heard Eavan Boland mentioned on /lit:

And if the provenance of memory is
only that—remember, not atone—
and if I can be safe in
the weak spring light in that kitchen, then

why is there another kitchen, spring light
always darkening in it and
a woman whispering to a man
over and over what else could we have done?

> And if the provenance of memory is only that (remember, not atone), and if I can be safe in
the weak spring light in that kitchen, then why is there another kitchen, spring light always darkening in it and a woman whispering to a man over and over: "What else could we have done?"

Professional secret: if you reformat poetry with sane person punctuation and it suddenly stops being poetry then it wasn't poetry in the first place.

Try this one neat trick, English professors hate it!

agreed

They make kids learn about emily dickinson dont they.

She's p good

You're doing your leaving cert aren't you OP

This lol I just did my paper 2 mock today :^)

bump

FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

You know using the term 'redpilled' makes you sound like a fucking cretin.

If you haven't noticed, there is one guy on an anti-/pol/ crusade that posts stuff like that in every other thread.

It's fucking terrible

>anti-/pol/ crusade
It's just a meme-spouting dipshit from /pol/, no one even bothers with these straw men anymore.

Lol all of these normies in here triggered because they are after the /pol/ boogeyman.