/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12841258]

Is she the best female poet/author of all time? Why is she so cute?

[Anonymous No.12841264]

>>12841258
post her instagram

[Anonymous No.12841278]

I finished The Bell Jar. Maybe I didn't fully get it because I'm not female but if the height of female literature is being bitchy and resentful towards men then female literature is a joke.

[Anonymous No.12841283]

>>12841258
A Mexican nun is the best female poet of all time

[Anonymous No.12841296]

>>12841278
She’s just a pathological neurotic like many other mentally ill yet intelligent people, they typically have a visceral and deep-seeded hatred for the opposite sex, regardless, Plath is indisputably the best female poet that I’ve ever read. I really like her poetry. I thought The Bell Jar was an interesting exploration of the neurotic female psyche and I’m sure she was conscious of this when writing, it’s a thought process and she’s being transparent and honest. She is a confessional after all. It also adds to the hilarity of many scenes in the novel when she acts like a bitch.

[Anonymous No.12841300]

>>12841258
>that nose
no she was not cute

>>12841278
she may have had reason to be bitchy and resentful. maybe she was sexually assaulted or something. but projecting that resentment onto all men was her brainlet mistake. a mistake that continues to this day, as women are now "more than equal" and their most successful examples are pseudo-victims. go look at Clinton's political career since 2000, for example. from being the victim at the Lazio debate, to being a victim of Obama's in the 08 primary, to being a victim of a vast right wing conspiracy, the being a victim in 2016 when she used a COLLAGE of victims in her campaign logo.

[Anonymous No.12841302]

>>12841283
Shes beautiful.

[Anonymous No.12841307]

>>12841283
Emily Dickinson was not a mexican nun

[Anonymous No.12841312]

>>12841278
It's not about being bitchy and resentful. It's writing about being bitchy and resentful in a self-aware way that offers insight to others. I sure hope you don't think that literature is all supposed to be morally didactic.

[Anonymous No.12841313]

>>12841278
Something tells me you already assumed the book to be like that before reading and then, naturally, 'found' that tone everywhere.
Nothing in that book felt 'bitchy towards men' to me.

[Anonymous No.12841315]

>>12841296
>Plath is indisputably the best female poet that I’ve ever read.

she's not bad, but she's still way beneath authors like Faulkner, Nabokov, and Steinbeck

[Anonymous No.12841327]

>>12841315
Female poet bruh

We talking about the lesser sex here, just clarifying :) I still love Sylvia’s writing and think she’s a cutie pie

[Anonymous No.12841334]

>>12841300
you're right, women cast themselves as permavictims even if they're extremely powerful and wealthy. It's a fucking joke.

>>12841313
I had no assumptions when I first started the book. I was fair and made my conclusion only after I finished it. It wasn't the worst I've ever read but I was still let down. I found Plath more interesting than Flannery O'Connor however

[Anonymous No.12841338]

>>12841315
None of those are remarkable poets, though.

[Anonymous No.12841339]

>>12841300
Altogether brainlet post and a middling and downright spasticated analysis of feminism’s impact on the world of contemporary politics

t. A traditionalist

[Anonymous No.12841347]

>>12841334
Despite the fact you claim you didn’t have any presuppositions about the novel, I somehow don’t believe you. Let’s read inbetween the lines:
>I had no assumptions when I first started the book.
>I was still let down.

[Anonymous No.12841351]

>>12841339
Okay. That's the last I'll say about it, as we're no longer talking about Plath directly. Although I do think she is somewhat responsible for our current predicament by empowering a reckless critique of the patriarchy, which is just another way of saying the founding fathers and their ideas.

[Anonymous No.12841355]

Damn she looks pretty thicc, her face is kinda butt tho

[Anonymous No.12841360]

>>12841327
Sylvia would harbor fantasies of castrating you.

[Anonymous No.12841363]

>>12841355
Her face is cute
She cute
I want to protect her

[Anonymous No.12841366]

>>12841360
I still think she’s a cutie pie and a darling, ok?

[Anonymous No.12841372]

>>12841347
If I had low expectations of the book, I wouldn't have bothered reading it. I had high expectations for Wise Blood and was extremely let down, so I try not to get too excited about any book even if it's one I really want to read

[Anonymous No.12841489]

>>12841278
Because women have been historically oppressed by men? It would make sense that they write about their experiences. Also, not every book written by a female has feminist themes in it, lmao.

[Anonymous No.12841499]

Heard she rips on manlets in that book. Idk if my little heart could take it

[Anonymous No.12841536]

>>12841499
Yeah she destroys them man(let), her scathing diatribes are pretty funny (atleast I think they are)

She’s a brilliant satirist

[Anonymous No.12841543]

>>12841355
Nah, she's pretty cute all around.
>>12841499
Why do people get so touchy about this fact? Grow a spine already.

[Anonymous No.12841551]

>>12841296
>deep-seeded

[Anonymous No.12841560]

>>12841543
>why do people get touchy about knowing from puberty that they will never be physically desirable to the women they desire or even the second-rate ones
I can't imagine.

[Anonymous No.12841623]

>>12841543
>telling a manlet to grow

[Anonymous No.12841658]

>>12841543
>grow a spine already

Kek

[Anonymous No.12841881]

>>12841258

>Is she the best female poet/author of all time?

No because that's not a picture of Ursula le Guin. Plath is still top tier though.

[Anonymous No.12841889]

>>12841283
this

[Anonymous No.12841899]

>>12841543
woman detected

[Anonymous No.12842276]

>>12841327
>implying that Faulkner, Nabokov, and Steinbeck were men

[Anonymous No.12842670]

Are her letters worth reading? I saw they've released them all.

[Anonymous No.12842821]

Maybe I just have a thing for English neets, but Dickinson and Emily Bronte are both absolutely better than Plath.

Anne Sexton is too, for someone more contemporary

[Anonymous No.12842830]

>someone who threw themselves into an oven has anything worth saying
Doubt it lmao

[Anonymous No.12842913]

>>12841258
>tfw you'll never see Sylvia Plath make an embarrassed face
>tfw you'll never see her grin nervously as her soft hands clutch her middle
>tfw you'll never hear the whine and gurgle of her intestines as she shits her panties, while she tries desperately to avoid showing how embarrassed she is

[Anonymous No.12843192]

>>12841258
>>12842830
what was the deal with the oven, anyway?

was she making a statement about women's suffering under the patriarchy? was the life of a homemaker really killing women?

[Anonymous No.12843301]

>>12841258
i'd be choked if i had a wife that hot and she killed herself. also i didn't know sylvia plath was that hot. a little bit of a butterface though

[Anonymous No.12843352]

>>12841283
Weird way of describing Virgina Woolf

[Anonymous No.12843369]

>>12843352
>Virginia Woolf
>poetry
Literally the only literary genre she didn't write in.

[Anonymous No.12843455]

Patricia Highsmith

[Anonymous No.12843585]

>>12843301
Her husband made her kill herself.

[Anonymous No.12843607]

>>12841278
I had to have my gf explain to me why it's so great. That was like 15 years ago, so I don't really remember. But she understood the female protagonists jealousy about sex, I think

[Anonymous No.12843616]

>>12841258
you think she was into anal?

[Anonymous No.12843933]

>>12841258
God I wish I could cuddle her and also have sex with her.

[Anonymous No.12844122]

>>12843585
based

[Anonymous No.12845170]

>>12841258

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