/lit/ - Literature

What did /lit/ think of The Bell Jar? I liked it overal, and there were some god-tier prose in it as well.

The plot itself did feel a bit poppish (especially near the end).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7ujeHnrT8A

where to start with Sylvia Plath?
>inb4 don't
>inb4 in the stove

What is the relationship between anesthetic experience and depression?

I just finished The Bell Jar. I absolutely loved it. Why oh why does this board discuss Rand more than Plath?

Lets get a poerty thread going.


Slyvia Plath is one of my favorites poets.

This bitch is actually pretty decent. Self-indulgent/self-obsessed yes, but still pretty damn ok.

Mirror

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful-
The eye of the little god, four cornered.
Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.
It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long
I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.
Faces and darkness separate us over and over.
Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

she would probably cry afterwards but it'd still be worthwhile

brb, got to put something in the oven

Hey /lit/ can you name me some famous freeform poets?

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haha. hey now. she was definitely crazy but she had the balls to tell her husband (with whom she had 14 children or something) that she wasn't going to sleep with him anymore or put up with any of the physical demands of housewife. She was torn between 'earthly' and 'Godly' demands. She chose the latter– private introspection and devotion– thereby abandoning her family (this was only temporary, as she did return to her husband to nurse him in sickness). However, think about the power she leveraged for herself by declaring her devotion to (the male figure) Christ. I see a bit of Kempe's influence in the writings of Adrianne Rich or Sylvia Plath; two women caught between fulfilling 'womanly duties' or developing their private inner lives (devoted to their craft as opposed to the Church).

Also, the only thing i respect about the catholic church is that they worship saints. it broadens the spectrum a bit and reminds me of paganism.

Why doesn't anyone care about poetry anymore?

What this chick needed was a deep dicking, that would have cured her.

thoughts on sylvia plath?
just finished the bell jar

I'm trying to get my girlfriend into reading. She doesn't read much and always hated the books we were assigned in high school. She likes Ellen Hopkins books which I don't have any experience in. I've been looking at books like "The Bell Jar", "Girl, Interrupted" and "The Perks of being a Wallflower" that she may like but I was hoping to get /lit/'s opinion. Does anyone have any suggestions?

And please, no mention of "Why are you dating her if she's into shitty books?" or other pretentious crap.