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Post by hi224 on May 1, 2020 23:31:19 GMT
yass queen.
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Post by petrolino on May 1, 2020 23:38:02 GMT
I think I just like poets from Massachusetts. Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, Jack Kerouac, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are favourites.
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Post by dirtypillows on May 2, 2020 0:20:10 GMT
I think I just like poets from Massachusetts. Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, Jack Kerouac, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are favourites. I like Edgar Allen Poe a lot. Especially his short stories. They are terrifying.
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Post by petrolino on May 2, 2020 0:38:29 GMT
I think I just like poets from Massachusetts. Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, E.E. Cummings, Jack Kerouac, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are favourites. I like Edgar Allen Poe a lot. Especially his short stories. They are terrifying. Scary as hell. Psychological terror, fears exposed, worry, anxiety, nausea, paranoia.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Jun 3, 2022 0:51:30 GMT
No idea. Try some Ted Hughes. I don't like his poetry.
A good bio:
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Post by Nalkarj on Jun 3, 2022 20:24:42 GMT
I wish I liked Plath’s poetry more; she seems like the sort of poet I like, especially with the gothic and fairy-tale themes. But I rarely love any of her poems as I do a few ( “Her Kind,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”) by similarly gothic and fairy-tale-esque confessional poet Anne Sexton. There are definitely Plath poems I like— “Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest” comes to mind, and I know there are others I’m blanking on—but not any, I think, that I love. I’m not even sure why, though two reasons may be Plath’s humorlessness and effortfulness—I usually feel the strain of her trying to create original, shocking images, which makes the images come off as less shocking and original. But I know mine is a minority opinion, and I am always on the lookout for Plaths I love. Also, funny story. I once wrote a poem—it’s a Halloween-set poem called “Spook Show,” and I’m mentioning it because I’m proud of how it develops themes within a seemingly light-verse structure—and the original draft, which I submitted to a poetry forum, had a Plath reference. (I rhymed her name with path, which I thought would surprise the reader but which severely restricted my rhyme scheme.) And somebody criticized my poem as yet another amateur piece by a Plath superfan! Ça m’a amusé.
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Post by amyghost on Jun 5, 2022 16:23:36 GMT
'Like' probably isn't the best word to apply to Plath's poetry--or to any of the more difficult and sometimes obfuscatory school of 'confessional' poets (Lowell, Schwartz, Berrigan, etc.) most of whom require some fairly substantial degree of acquaintance with the circumstances of their lives for the reader to begin to bring much comprehension to the themes of their works. You're in good company insofar as the late and brilliant Edmund Wilson didn't much like the confessional form either. For what it's worth, I think Plath's work is rich, strange, and worthy of the effort at delving--though I can also add that much of the 'feminista' barnacles that have come to encrust it I could do without.
Also, FWIW, I greatly admire Ted Hughes' poetry and writings--while finding the man a complete and utter swine.
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