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Literally the most overrated female poet of all time.

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

>> No.9069537

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.

>> No.9069538 [DELETED] 

>>9069532
Redpilled intellectual here.

Because their cultural marxists who want to breed out whiteness

>> No.9069586

>>9069537
garbage

>> No.9069590

>>9069532
>Boland
Fuck her and fuck the department of education for putting her on the leaving cert

>> No.9069595

>>9069537
>I am red meat.
that's some *raw* talent right there

>> No.9069609

>>9069532
Self-pity: the poet

>> No.9069612

>>9069586
false

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9069629

Go back to your home, Sylvia!

>> No.9069631

Bell Jar is good tho

>> No.9069741

>>9069537
>Lady Lazarus
>amazing
Pick one

>> No.9071693

>>9069631
This.

>> No.9071742

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

>> No.9071774

>>9069532
She's not bad. She's a more solipsistic, kitschy version of Roethke.

>> No.9071823

>>9069629
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

>> No.9072071

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...

>> No.9073214

>>9071823
this. We need more information.

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9073351

>>9069532
Awesomely reasoned post there, OP.

>> No.9073366

>>9071823
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.

>> No.9073574

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?

>> No.9073606

>>9073574
> 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!

>> No.9073820

>>9069631
agreed

>> No.9075044

They make kids learn about emily dickinson dont they.

She's p good

>> No.9075050

>>9069532
You're doing your leaving cert aren't you OP

>> No.9075101

>>9069590
This lol I just did my paper 2 mock today :^)

>> No.9076751

bump

>> No.9077340

>>9069532
FUCK OFF FUCK OFF FUCK OFF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.9077342

>>9069538
You know using the term 'redpilled' makes you sound like a fucking cretin.

>> No.9077621 [DELETED] 

>>9077342
If you haven't noticed, there is one guy on an anti-/pol/ crusade that posts stuff like that in every other thread.

>> No.9077622

>>9069631
It's fucking terrible

>> No.9077625

>>9077621
>anti-/pol/ crusade
It's just a meme-spouting dipshit from /pol/, no one even bothers with these straw men anymore.

>> No.9078505

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