ivorysoul468 (October 7, 2008 at 2:53 pm)

sylvia is one of my heroes. her poetry speaks volumes and i could read it over and over again and it would never grow old

Kristinkicks (October 6, 2008 at 12:18 am)

ah this poem is so good. a little extreme, but thats the point isn't it?

carolinaswede (September 30, 2008 at 5:08 am)

I think that's a pretty accurate observation.Also I think a lot of younger people tend to glamorize poets and other artists who suffer from depression and other mental illnesses.

prettypiscesNYC (September 30, 2008 at 2:26 am)

Maybe she suffered in another- past life- her poetry just expresses that "regression"... read her journals, phenomenal!!!

TransientGymnopedie (September 14, 2008 at 9:25 pm)

The thing is, the poem is about herself, because Sylvia Plath always wrote quite confessionally, but the girl is the poem is not neccessarily herself. According to my English teacher, it's a persona that she's speaking through. So yeah, she's comparing her experiences to those of Holocaust victims, but she's using the girl in the poem as an interface and so she's not obliged to stick to the facts of her own life. As an example, Plath's real daddy died when she was eight, not ten.

verbaud (September 13, 2008 at 4:38 am)

I believe Sylvia Plath felt very much alone, intellectually. I believe she was wickedly funny. When you have no one with whom to share your dark vision, your black humor, you may begin to believe that it is not really funny.Having read everything she wrote, I will always appreciate her dark humor and kick ass anger. "Turkey neck and giblets"? 1st woman I ever read to come out with THAT!(her description of male parts)

aicila729 (September 9, 2008 at 10:39 pm)

And if she does have any arrogance in her own work like you claim, it is well deserved. I find this poem to be brilliant- impassioned, clever, and beautiful.

aicila729 (September 9, 2008 at 10:38 pm)

Really? You don't think she was effective with what she was doing? She is fusing her own personal suffering with a metaphor of the holocaust, giving it a universal quality. If she wrote this poem with herself as the direct narrator, then I agree with her... that would be narcissistic, like some girl's whiny diary entry. By doing what she has accomplished here, she is not only depicting the intensity of her own personal emotions, but doing so in a literary way.

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EMD2 (September 9, 2008 at 4:43 pm)

That is a quote from Plath. Does she live up to her own ironically detached philosophy? Gosh, does she ever not. There is this tremendous arrogance she expresses in her work and in her interviews, and then she turns coward by opting out of life. So it all falls flat in the end for her by her own misguided hand.