...Now with more mood swings than a baseball player suffering PMS!

[eremon_lass]

Dad fixed Eremon, and I ignored him all day yesterday, so he seems to be in better shape now. Let us hope that he stays that way, and does not decide to fail when I have to write my *insert expletive of choice* English Paper of Depression and Hugeness

Comments

[rainbowjehan]

I'm not actually allowed to read Sylvia Plath, because she's on the list that has been drawn up for me of Things That Will Probably Send Me Into a Raging Depression And Or Hysterics. Kind of like Titus Andronicus. ^^;;;

[eremon_lass]

Yeah, she's very depressing, sometimes almost to the point of being silly, actually. And plz to not be going into depression or hysterics. Just enjoy the tickyboxes! *snug*

[rainbowjehan]

Really? ^^; Oh, dear. But I shall not. I shall love the tickyboxes.

Plath's poem to be published this Nov on Blackbird

[rainbowjehan]

"Ennui," a previously unpublished poem by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath, will appear November 1, 2006 in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts (www.blackbird.vcu.edu). Journey, a published poet and recent winner of the Wabash Prize from Sycamore Review, is the author of a forthcoming scholarly article on "Ennui."

Mei Liu (Intern, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts)
www.blackbird.vcu.edu

[justawetdream]

... I admit I only did it for the tickyboxes.

[eremon_lass]

You'd probably really like Plath. She very much went through a "I hate my husband and therefore mankind in general" phase that produced some good stuff.

Of course, the real point of that poll was actually the tickyboxes. I threw in the other because I couldn't justify having only tickyboxes on a poll. XD

[justawetdream]

Sounds about like my kind of woman, yes.

-- ALL HAIL TWITCH! :D

[dan_e_boy]

I voted for "Daddy" for three reasons: it would be more dynamic to read aloud, it would make a more interesting (and provocative) collage (by the way I'm jealous of that part because in my poetry class we had to do a couple similar assignments but we didn't get to make a collage), and everyone knows about the stuck-her-head-in-the-oven part of Sylvia Plath but not as much about the daddy issues she had, so it would be more informative and new for people.
On another note, have you ever heard recordings of her reading her own stuff? I actually heard her read both of these just a few weeks ago in my Creative Writing class. My teacher has that book and CD of a bunch of poetsreading their own work (I think it's called "Poets Speak" or something) and we listened to some. Plath read her stuff well and it was actually interesting, whereas some (read: T.S. Eliot) made me want to go to sleep. Anyway, it might be a good idea to hear the way she read whichever poem you choose and incorporate that into your reading.
Good luck!

[eremon_lass]

I was leaning more strongly toward "Daddy" for several of those reasons, and since the particular imagery and references that drew me to "Lady Lazarus" are also in "Daddy", it's a winner all the way around.

Actually, I do have the recordings of her reading both, and if I really do have a whole ten minutes for my presentation, I'm going to ask my teacher if I can play that instead of reading it myself. (Yeah, I like reading some of Eliot's, but I imagine his delivery of it was...would dull be the re=ight word?)

Thanks for the help!

[dan_e_boy]

In the room

the women come

and go

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[dan_e_boy]

"Ennui," a previously unpublished poem by the late Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sylvia Plath, will appear November 1, 2006 in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts (www.blackbird.vcu.edu). Journey, a published poet and recent winner of the Wabash Prize from Sycamore Review, is the author of a forthcoming scholarly article on "Ennui."

Mei Liu (Intern, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts)
www.blackbird.vcu.edu

[xthe_ingenue]

See, now I would totally marry Arthur or Quincey. Or Marius, but that's another story.

[moonykins]

Iiiiiii have no idea who this Sylvia person is. I should be ashamed, shouldn't I?

Um. Hullo.

justawetdream randomly mentioned (because I was fangirling Alan Rickman and Jeremy Irons) that "You and Twitch'd get along fine."

....naturally, I had to say HIII :D

I love meeting new people, can you tell? 8D

*stalks-hopeyoudon'tmind*

[eremon_lass]

She was a manic-depressive suicidal poet. Don't be too ashamed.

Pleased to be stakled by meet you!