I think she is a bit rough on her dad. After all he just died of an illness. It would test a child, but was not malicious as is inferred by her comparison with the Nazis. A lot of children today are actually deserted by their dads. I wonder how they feel. I like to think I have Plathtonic relationships!
I think she is a bit rough on her dad. After all he just died of an illness. It would test a child, but was not malicious as is inferred by her comparison with the Nazis. A lot of children today are actually deserted by their dads. I wonder how they feel. I like to think I have Plathtonic relationships!
@radoxme Yes, I think all you've said is true, but the truth of the matter was, this is probably a childhood trauma, so it's clearly much distorted and disproportionately significant in her mind. I think that the Nazi comparison also was not as severe as it would be today. After all, she lived through those times, and they probably stuck with her.
@oliwalsh1 No, it's not. It's about how she felt opressed by her dad, it's about her Electra Complex. Her dad left and she felt opressed but still she needed to find someone like him, so thats why she grew attracted to Ted Hughes.
Oh yeah, suicide is so horrible. Because it's more courageous to live for 30-40 or so more years and be a work drone and complain about your life all the way.
@SagaciousSilence <3 Love wat u had to say! yes it is not courage's to live a Life that Dies anyways biTching all the way through it. And what paiN it is to be in her pLace leaving her children the way she did, no mother wants this but the mind tricks with thoughts in paiN confUse...,`.;'<\3
The "Oo" rhyme that she uses intermittently throughout this poem is incredibly powerful. Sensual, actually. This is definitely my favourite Plath poem, as it gets the ambiguity of the word "Daddy" just right (i.e. Father. Lover. Deity) and is an honest interpretation of each meaning in turn. From a male perspective, I think my favourite line is "every woman adores a fascist" - it comforts me to think that's the reason I cry myself to sleep every night... :P
It is too bad that she taken her own life, whatever demons haunted her, whether she was right or wrong, she died too young and without a doubt in mind she could have easily been one of the greats, the way she uses confessional poetry.
Seems like alot of men are offended. Chill out guys is not an assault on men its an assault on part of plath herself. Her idea of men she loves she is attacking. She talks about the paradoxal relationship between her loves and authority. Plath could not fall for a weak man, but that was her ultimate weakness.
I, too, don't get all of the negative response to this. I guess being able to write and convey a thought in complete coherent fashion without using acronyms, abbreviations and eliminating vowels is too much to ask of people these days. Plath was pure brilliance and eloquence. It is okay if you don't get it but at least show some appreciation for the art.
why are people saying ANY negative comments? its because she's a female and a genius. People suck spotten hyena clitoris. (Go Google that by the way). Sylvia was a rare jewel. She deserves more credit than she's given.
@zeroheadroom - If that is the case, you should know something about the poet you are about to listen to. Now you've ruined a pefrectly good vacation, to say nothing of causing great personal harm to yourself.
I wish people would stop having these stupid arguments. This poem is beautiful. Sylvia's mind was beautiful. And if you don't think so, there's no need to insult the writer nor the work. Maybe you think you can do better, and maybe that could actually be true. But, chances are, Sylvia had more talent in her pinky than most people who post mean comments here.
Many anarchist women had abusive fathers. I did, and married worse ones. They're malignant narcissists, incapable of love. U.S. "leaders" are - Obama, the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc. Most Americans trust such little Hitlers. They're fooled by their self-assured manner and bogus experts. Our illusions are shattered. Fascist pigs have mined and discarded millions of people since WWII. Dehumanization is slow murder. WE decide when the torture is unbearable. Our judges don't.
she was very fucked up dear Sylvia, has to be to leave her babies like that, you can hear it in her voice, Two poets should never ever live together, and I do feel sorry for Ted at times, she probably drove him away, I never met a man who would have liked to live with Sylvia! Great poet, probably better than Ted for me
because I can and as a poet who lived with a poet who died, I know the fuck what I am talking about, I also know people who knew Sylvia Plath, get real FFS! I can say what I like about who is or is not a greater poet. What is it you are objecting to, actually? As a mother I also know what I am talking about, This was a seriously disturbed, depressed, deranged woman. Or do you think she should be treated as 'normal' whatever that is? Most geniuses would avoid even people like you
Sylvia possessed an originality that stands out. Her imagery was something different, and unique I feel. It's a shame her suicide has made her into a tragic icon, equally loathed and worshipped.
I know quite a few poetry conservatives who can't stand Sylvia's writing. But a poet like Sylvia needed to come. She was really growing as a poet during the last few years of her life, a shame she didn't get to grow even more. She could only have improved and delved into new territory.
I'm appalled by the pure ignorance and lack of sensitivity some of these comments are written with. She was a person with a beautiful mind and who happened to spew beautiful words, too. Fuck off, imbeciles. Your words carry no weight.
On the Suicide of Sylvia Plath Who gives a shit? She was this lofty Bostonian bluestocking narcissistic beyond belief and morbidly attracted to despotic misogynists. Not that I'd know I hate fucking Preppies. The woman was a fruticake. Got shock treatments at MacLeans a patrician snakepit for blueblooded nutters. Marianne Faithfull also once detoxed there... Poetesses, as we know, are off their trolleys. Take Sylvia Plath. Neurotic bitch. Fucking offed herself.
@Ebbi4u2 You're probably stupid, but I'll tell you that what I wrote is a parody of a poem by Eileen Myles, "On the Death of Robert Lowell." Look it up; you'll see the similarity. I love Plath, and I know a lot about her and her poetry.
I'm probably stupid? You can't even come up with an original response. Your post was pathetic in every sense of the word. It showed no knowledge or love or respect for Plath, Lowell, Marianne Faithfu, and Poetesses in general who, according to you, are all "trolleys. I reiterate, you spill shitwadery again!
@WilliamHollender What's the matter with you people? Did you gobble lead-based paint chips when you were kids? I repeat: what I wrote is a parody of a famous (to those who care about contemporary poetry) poem by Eileen Myles. Look it up.
I love Plath. She used to be my favorite poet. I've read her complete works. I have some of her poems by heart. I used to fantasize about kicking down the door at 23 Fitzroy and pulling her head out of the oven. I could write a book about her myself. Okay?
Thank you for posting that. I have that recording but haven't listend to it in years. This is easilly my favorite Plath piece. It brought tears to my eyes just like the first time I read it.
Thank you for posting that. I have that recording but haven't listend to it in years. This is easilly my favorite Plath piece. It brought tears to my eyes just like the first tim I read it.
WOW, just so incredible on so many levels, one of the great things about the internet is someone can share her voice like this to a brilliantly done edited video, thanks so much, I'm glad this is shared with the world
@LicoriceLain She was not just a cute young woman, but her voice is commanding and captivating. I wish she wouldn't have felt that she had to take the wrong way out. Something tells me we never got the best of what she was capable of.
@michealdark I don't blame her for killing herself. If she felt that was her only option, she obviously was experiencing something difficult. However, I too ponder what she would have been able to achieve if she lived. Maybe she would have been able to comfort her son (especially given that she was at the place he was before he killed himself).
@LicoriceLain A film was made in 2003 called "Sylvia". Gwyneth Paltrow is Plath and Daniel Craig is Hughes. She captured the voice to a degree, but you only hear the very end of "Daddy" after she writes it in the film. A good effort overall though.
awesome stuff.. ye her voice is certainly not how i expected it to be; which is by no means a bad thing... it has a certain air of maturity about it, with undertones of discernible anguish especially towards the end. also, for those that call suicide cowardly and weak etc and yet still profess to understand this poem are surely bein untruthful... this poem itself highlights in the most brutally honest fashion the deep seated anguish and malcontent that depression can instill in someone... her s
Plath's references to Jews were not to emphasise ill-intent towards Jews OR Germans. It was simply an act of defiance towards her father who she both hated and loved. By stating that she is a Jew, she is saying that he was like Hitler, or a Nazi. Her soul was not hideous, simply her history. Her father was Austrian and immigrated, but it was simply imagery; careful selection of emotional phrases used to state a point: that she hated him and defied him like a Jew defies Hitler simply be existing.
I love how her voice cracks when she gets emotional. so sick of actors overperforming poetry, so this makes a difference. the writer knows where the emphasis should be.
It may be different than hers but I remembered how I was irritated by my parents and then I go out and actually see myself in them when I'm with others. It's startling and for once I am grateful than I recognized myself in a poem and not the other way around.
I first came across this poem about 6 years ago and I used this as a superficial demonstration to say I love poetry. Now, as I listen to this, Plath is indeed very good and for a person who has accumulated enough experiences and realizes how your fears can manifest and translate from one aspect of your life to another, you begin to have a very deep and moving experience.
@DaftSwank Oh my God she so would have been! I love both her and the band but I never thought of connecting them before. I can imagine her listening to "Disorder" or "Ice Age" while smoking a cigarette.
@DaftSwank Joy Division??? Sylvia's writing style would most likely fit the musical styles of Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, and Alanis Morissette considering how painfully confessional they all are.
i'm reading "the bell jar"...now...i don't know if i want to pursue this...her writing is....yes, sharp as a knife and glittering, but it inflicts pain...do i really want to share this? why are we drawn to such poignancy....it is exquisite, yet profoundly unhappy....
@kevinjconroy It's the book I've identify with the most and I'm not that unhappy. I just think no one is happy or completely miserable. We just live. I don't know haha. I love that book.
@menajapo well, yes....to be able to write so well is a positive thing....ok...i guess you are right, because there are moments in the book when i have thought and felt the exact same thing she is describing, only i couldn't put it into words.....but still....there's something that makes me uncomfortable....but i am drawn to it at the same time....i don't know either ha ha
@Stefandurr Ppl have said that about Sylvia, but you also have to remember the time period. She was a single mother in France. She had a lot of issues. She could've gotten more help if it was today. We knew less then, and one of the things they would've said was to "tough it out." It's easy to judge what goes on in someone else's life and ill mind.
@Calvin2Cool Sorry, I'm just getting crap confused. She had something to do with France? I thought she lived there. Either way, she was pretty much alone with her children. I would hope she would've had more help today. It's a very sad story.
@tigerslilly29 Born in America, studied in Cambridge UK, worked in USA, moved back and lived in London, then moved to Cornwall and back to London where she stuck her head in an oven and died of carbon monoxide.
This is a beautiful poem and she has such a soulful quality to her voice. It is so saddening that her most gorgeous quality is what ended up killing her. I admire her and always will admire her.
@Stefandurr Depends on the suicide. I said it was brave and now, just a few days later, I'm not so sure about it. I'm really sorry for her children. Maybe there was nothing more to fight for, for her. Sometimes there are no alternatives for a person and you never know, it's up to you to judge somebody, it's not wise. It requires a lot of courage to kill oneself, to push it to the end. It may be an honoured decision, but again: it depends. Hers was a tragic end.
There's way too much stigma surrounding suicide. People who feel that way are in intense pain, and when someone tells them they're wrong or crazy or a coward for feeling that way, it just makes things worse. If your hand was on fire and you obviously need to put it out, you ask for help and someone tells you you should be brave and tough it out...well, you're going to lose your hand, aren't you? If that person helped instead of putting you down, you would be in one piece. They need help and love
Suicide is not selfish, it is desperate, and sometimes desperation can lead to selfishness, but the act itself is not intentionally selfish. But the bottom line is NOT to argue about what suicide is and isn't, if you think suicide is wrong THEN YOU SHOULD TRY TO HELP. Reach out to somebody and DON'T JUDGE. Support and love. Suicidal people hate to be judged, they get it from everyone. We need love not hate. We need to share our hearts. Sylvia's poems were asking for help when she couldn't cope.
One time a fellow said "she might be speaking of 16 different people here" at the time I didnt say nothing, but I do now...there is no way someone writes a poem to their father and talks about someone else...
The reason she used so many references is due to the fact that she didn't know him.
@Lillogambino She knew her father, she just thought that he wasn't interested in her. She says it subtly, but he was always preocupied with the news, wars, etc, and never asked her how her day was. He wasn't much of a "daddy"
@vichiousfishes Oh my fucking God. I'd have thought a Sylvia Plath video would at least be free from stupid thumbs up seeking comments about Justin fucking Bieber. Don't you retards understand that you're helping his career by giving him so much attention? SHUT THE FUCK UP! I don't give a shit about your opinions regarding some nothing pop star. And anyone who does is an idiot.
I really think people are missing the point of the poetry here. Stop searching for any tiny bit of autobiography in the verse and appreciate as the poet wanted you to. Plath didn't write poetry to tell everyone about her life. It's such a shame that Plath's admittedly tumultuous personal life has overshadowed her career as a poet. Forget anything you know about her, then read her again! Remember that the poem was written under the assumption that you don't know her most intimate details!
@wayfaringstoner That's true. It enhances the poetry experience to not be aware of every dirty little detail of something that isn't even our business. It enhances the mystery of such a narrator, a character. It's wonderful when the mind wonders and wanders.
Why does she say she was ten when "they buried you".. She's speaking of her father right? But she was 8 when he died..... The brute she says that she married, that is Ted Hughes right?
@agentpixel Quite right! Also, the part where she says "So I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look" was in reference to Ted Hughes himself who was known to where black clothing all the time.
@agentpixel Yes she was 8 when her father died, just like she was 21 when she attempted suicide and not 20 as stated in the poem. She does this to emphasise the ritualistic aspect of how her father's death affected her. Every ten years for her is a kind of ritual that needs to be paid in blood. Plath's poetry was greatly influenced by mythology and this is one of the many instances where she incorporates it.
Doing this for higher English, so good.
Bowiieee 23 hours ago
could you elaborate on where this footage is from?
mkay0517 2 days ago
I don't I live in Glasgow in Scotland :3
Saraaah071295 2 days ago
Looks like everyone that's watching this vid lives in miami :D
cubalombian22 4 days ago
waaow!she did miss him!
2010MahaKhan9700 1 week ago
montclair...wat does this meannnnnnnn
iMadeThisToTroll1 1 week ago
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iMadeThisToTroll1 1 week ago
O Sylvia, how I love thee!!!
PoetryPoemsPoets 1 week ago in playlist Sylvia
I GO TO DADE , I GOTTA DO THAT SAME FREAKIN ESSAY LOL
chrissypooh305 1 week ago
@chrissypooh305 hha yo i wrote the shit and my professor didnt even want it
Leno1DAC 1 week ago
god damn i have to write a two page essay on this -__-
Leno1DAC 1 week ago
@Leno1DAC Me too . Do you go to Miami-Dade ?
SuperDuggiie1 1 week ago
@SuperDuggiie1 yea yo
Leno1DAC 1 week ago
@Leno1DAC OMFG and the teacher didn't even want us to do it O.o !
SuperDuggiie1 1 week ago
@SuperDuggiie1 yo u may even be in my class. does ur professor have a big ass red nose?
Leno1DAC 3 days ago
@Leno1DAC Oh shit . Yea O.o :D !
SuperDuggiie1 1 day ago
@Leno1DAC consider yourself lucky.. I have to write a five page essay on this. wish me luck...
loganab8 4 days ago
@loganab8 sounds like it sucks cock
Leno1DAC 3 days ago
I feel like Sylvia Plath and I would get along really well, or at least understand each other well, but we might drag each other down too.
aliceinvunderland 2 weeks ago
She was good, wasn't she
(good ? is that enough? no)
ChifleyLIB 3 weeks ago
brutal beauty
cooldeady 4 weeks ago
Thank you.
evilthesaurus 1 month ago
This is one of my favorites.
jayder65 1 month ago
There just aren't words to describe how just how good that poem is.
226billy 1 month ago
Her meisterwerk!!!!!!
johnbarry1965 1 month ago
Lovely imagery.
ploucha1 1 month ago
could someone please watch my impression of this? i would like some feedback- thanks! :D
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I think she is a bit rough on her dad. After all he just died of an illness. It would test a child, but was not malicious as is inferred by her comparison with the Nazis. A lot of children today are actually deserted by their dads. I wonder how they feel. I like to think I have Plathtonic relationships!
radoxme 1 month ago
I think she is a bit rough on her dad. After all he just died of an illness. It would test a child, but was not malicious as is inferred by her comparison with the Nazis. A lot of children today are actually deserted by their dads. I wonder how they feel. I like to think I have Plathtonic relationships!
radoxme 1 month ago
@radoxme Yes, I think all you've said is true, but the truth of the matter was, this is probably a childhood trauma, so it's clearly much distorted and disproportionately significant in her mind. I think that the Nazi comparison also was not as severe as it would be today. After all, she lived through those times, and they probably stuck with her.
aliceinvunderland 1 month ago
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PhilyLea 1 month ago
I think I'm going to stick my head into an oven now.
Elementer117 1 month ago
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oliwalsh1 2 months ago
@oliwalsh1 No, it's not. It's about how she felt opressed by her dad, it's about her Electra Complex. Her dad left and she felt opressed but still she needed to find someone like him, so thats why she grew attracted to Ted Hughes.
livelifelaughloud 1 month ago
Im guessing this is after her husbad cheated on her?
JamieCFurbo 2 months ago
Such intensities.
cooltoonist 2 months ago
Wow this is intense. :3<3
sunshinekittyyum 2 months ago
Sylvia Plath was incredible
Iso3331 2 months ago
Oh yeah, suicide is so horrible. Because it's more courageous to live for 30-40 or so more years and be a work drone and complain about your life all the way.
You fucking cowards.
SagaciousSilence 2 months ago
@SagaciousSilence <3 Love wat u had to say! yes it is not courage's to live a Life that Dies anyways biTching all the way through it. And what paiN it is to be in her pLace leaving her children the way she did, no mother wants this but the mind tricks with thoughts in paiN confUse...,`.;'<\3
weRstillNotFree 2 months ago
Sylvia was hot! I'd definitely let her be my Jew ;)
SagaciousSilence 2 months ago
The "Oo" rhyme that she uses intermittently throughout this poem is incredibly powerful. Sensual, actually. This is definitely my favourite Plath poem, as it gets the ambiguity of the word "Daddy" just right (i.e. Father. Lover. Deity) and is an honest interpretation of each meaning in turn. From a male perspective, I think my favourite line is "every woman adores a fascist" - it comforts me to think that's the reason I cry myself to sleep every night... :P
JRoN1Mo 2 months ago
It is too bad that she taken her own life, whatever demons haunted her, whether she was right or wrong, she died too young and without a doubt in mind she could have easily been one of the greats, the way she uses confessional poetry.
wisebrotha 2 months ago
Seems like alot of men are offended. Chill out guys is not an assault on men its an assault on part of plath herself. Her idea of men she loves she is attacking. She talks about the paradoxal relationship between her loves and authority. Plath could not fall for a weak man, but that was her ultimate weakness.
Duder871 2 months ago
Wow.
melissais 2 months ago
47 people are emptier that 1,711.
mskeetsful 2 months ago
@mskeetsful so right on! }:0\>.,;'` spit on them
weRstillNotFree 2 months ago
its to bad she had to take her own life...
jbhuszar1 3 months ago
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If you're looking for intelligent responses to poetry, you won't find them on YouTube.
kbkbeirne 3 months ago
FUCK
mechazaowa 3 months ago
Pretty sure this woman was on a fucking acid trip.
EjvindDark 3 months ago
@EjvindDark either you've never taken acid or you've never felt obsession.
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what a crock of shit
TomEd171 3 months ago
I, too, don't get all of the negative response to this. I guess being able to write and convey a thought in complete coherent fashion without using acronyms, abbreviations and eliminating vowels is too much to ask of people these days. Plath was pure brilliance and eloquence. It is okay if you don't get it but at least show some appreciation for the art.
antipopprincess 3 months ago
why are people saying ANY negative comments? its because she's a female and a genius. People suck spotten hyena clitoris. (Go Google that by the way). Sylvia was a rare jewel. She deserves more credit than she's given.
MartyredxMaiden 3 months ago
what a whore.
Mrchocoman141 3 months ago
i was going to book a nice holiday but listening to this makes me want to shoot myself in the face. Thanks Sylvia
zeroheadroom 3 months ago
@zeroheadroom - If that is the case, you should know something about the poet you are about to listen to. Now you've ruined a pefrectly good vacation, to say nothing of causing great personal harm to yourself.
eecortese 2 months ago
I wish people would stop having these stupid arguments. This poem is beautiful. Sylvia's mind was beautiful. And if you don't think so, there's no need to insult the writer nor the work. Maybe you think you can do better, and maybe that could actually be true. But, chances are, Sylvia had more talent in her pinky than most people who post mean comments here.
rossiv36099 3 months ago
"daddy daddy you bastard im through"
ihearttheplanet 3 months ago
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Herp derp, I'm Sylvia Plath and I like to drop random references to the holocaust. How dark! How edgy!
Spitfirebird 3 months ago
@Spitfirebird you're an imbecile
apollak8 3 months ago
@apollak8 Cry me a river.
Spitfirebird 3 months ago
@Spitfirebird And you have proven yourself to be far more intelligent. I love your use of the words 'Herp' and 'Derp'.
You should write poetry.
dead0piggy 3 months ago
@Spitfirebird Can't tell if trolling!
jishmondo 3 months ago
@jishmondo You mad bro?
Spitfirebird 3 months ago
Many anarchist women had abusive fathers. I did, and married worse ones. They're malignant narcissists, incapable of love. U.S. "leaders" are - Obama, the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Kissinger, etc. Most Americans trust such little Hitlers. They're fooled by their self-assured manner and bogus experts. Our illusions are shattered. Fascist pigs have mined and discarded millions of people since WWII. Dehumanization is slow murder. WE decide when the torture is unbearable. Our judges don't.
asynkronos 3 months ago
she was very fucked up dear Sylvia, has to be to leave her babies like that, you can hear it in her voice, Two poets should never ever live together, and I do feel sorry for Ted at times, she probably drove him away, I never met a man who would have liked to live with Sylvia! Great poet, probably better than Ted for me
insomnia759 4 months ago
@insomnia759 How could you say such a thing?
WoahBabyWoah14 4 months ago
@WoahBabyWoah14
because I can and as a poet who lived with a poet who died, I know the fuck what I am talking about, I also know people who knew Sylvia Plath, get real FFS! I can say what I like about who is or is not a greater poet. What is it you are objecting to, actually? As a mother I also know what I am talking about, This was a seriously disturbed, depressed, deranged woman. Or do you think she should be treated as 'normal' whatever that is? Most geniuses would avoid even people like you
insomnia759 3 months ago
We're old again,
I see you Sylvia -
Plath - Your adieu.
I miss you.
Hallo2244 4 months ago
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And just like a jew her best friend was an oven.
buttgolem 4 months ago
@buttgolem GTFO...
wearetheend8989 4 months ago
@buttgolem hahaha best thing ever
cwrees 4 months ago
One of the most powerful poems ever written. One can feel the bare, raging honesty of the lines. Quite astounding for a woman to have penned.
One wonders if Sylvia had an Electra Complex.
ManilaSyndicate 4 months ago
@ManilaSyndicate Quite astounding for a woman? An Electra complex? Come on.
RLviddy 4 months ago
Sylvia possessed an originality that stands out. Her imagery was something different, and unique I feel. It's a shame her suicide has made her into a tragic icon, equally loathed and worshipped.
I know quite a few poetry conservatives who can't stand Sylvia's writing. But a poet like Sylvia needed to come. She was really growing as a poet during the last few years of her life, a shame she didn't get to grow even more. She could only have improved and delved into new territory.
FaithIsAnnoyed 4 months ago
I'm appalled by the pure ignorance and lack of sensitivity some of these comments are written with. She was a person with a beautiful mind and who happened to spew beautiful words, too. Fuck off, imbeciles. Your words carry no weight.
JadeAndLilysWebshow 4 months ago
Are you sure it's sylvia and not Gwyneth Paltrow from the movie?
BergmansChild 4 months ago
@BergmansChild This is Sylvia Plath's recorded voice.
adasinner 4 months ago
@adasinner They sound very similar, although, trough Sylvia Plath's voice, you can recognize some heartbreaking sobs...
BergmansChild 4 months ago
Ted aced Sylvia ... end of story. Friendo.
TheHoyaJoe 5 months ago
@TheHoyaJoe - "Ted aced Sylvia", you say? You mean in same way he aced Assia and son Nicholas?
eecortese 2 months ago
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Would've been so much better if she'd shoved her head in the oven a few months early ...
TheMilONElion 5 months ago
Searing poem, stunning recitation.
vs1729 5 months ago
her voice is so powerful.
ghaand1994 5 months ago
I like her poetry more than I liked "The Bell Jar." This is riveting.
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dnggitg 5 months ago
@dnggitg
Then why the hell did you click on this to begin with you shit-wad!
Ebbi4u2 5 months ago
@Ebbi4u2 You're probably stupid, but I'll tell you that what I wrote is a parody of a poem by Eileen Myles, "On the Death of Robert Lowell." Look it up; you'll see the similarity. I love Plath, and I know a lot about her and her poetry.
dnggitg 5 months ago
@dnggitg
I'm probably stupid? You can't even come up with an original response. Your post was pathetic in every sense of the word. It showed no knowledge or love or respect for Plath, Lowell, Marianne Faithfu, and Poetesses in general who, according to you, are all "trolleys. I reiterate, you spill shitwadery again!
Ebbi4u2 5 months ago
@dnggitg
People who care about art should care about the suicide of Plath, because art lost a lot with it.
WilliamHollender 5 months ago
@WilliamHollender What's the matter with you people? Did you gobble lead-based paint chips when you were kids? I repeat: what I wrote is a parody of a famous (to those who care about contemporary poetry) poem by Eileen Myles. Look it up.
I love Plath. She used to be my favorite poet. I've read her complete works. I have some of her poems by heart. I used to fantasize about kicking down the door at 23 Fitzroy and pulling her head out of the oven. I could write a book about her myself. Okay?
dnggitg 5 months ago
i love her so much
feritznang 5 months ago
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Thank you for posting that. I have that recording but haven't listend to it in years. This is easilly my favorite Plath piece. It brought tears to my eyes just like the first time I read it.
kingmuddythethird 5 months ago
Thank you for posting that. I have that recording but haven't listend to it in years. This is easilly my favorite Plath piece. It brought tears to my eyes just like the first tim I read it.
kingmuddythethird 5 months ago
WOW, just so incredible on so many levels, one of the great things about the internet is someone can share her voice like this to a brilliantly done edited video, thanks so much, I'm glad this is shared with the world
ViperRob42 6 months ago
If any film is going to be done of her work, her voice has to be captured or else there is no point.
LicoriceLain 6 months ago
@LicoriceLain She was not just a cute young woman, but her voice is commanding and captivating. I wish she wouldn't have felt that she had to take the wrong way out. Something tells me we never got the best of what she was capable of.
michealdark 6 months ago
@michealdark I don't blame her for killing herself. If she felt that was her only option, she obviously was experiencing something difficult. However, I too ponder what she would have been able to achieve if she lived. Maybe she would have been able to comfort her son (especially given that she was at the place he was before he killed himself).
LicoriceLain 6 months ago
@LicoriceLain A film was made in 2003 called "Sylvia". Gwyneth Paltrow is Plath and Daniel Craig is Hughes. She captured the voice to a degree, but you only hear the very end of "Daddy" after she writes it in the film. A good effort overall though.
HayziFromOz 5 months ago
that voice! so, i dont know, so tempting, so full, so full of meaning..
bixnqq 6 months ago
awesome stuff.. ye her voice is certainly not how i expected it to be; which is by no means a bad thing... it has a certain air of maturity about it, with undertones of discernible anguish especially towards the end. also, for those that call suicide cowardly and weak etc and yet still profess to understand this poem are surely bein untruthful... this poem itself highlights in the most brutally honest fashion the deep seated anguish and malcontent that depression can instill in someone... her s
FATTGAZZ93 6 months ago
i love her voice...
sahrawiyya 6 months ago
She was beautiful,
erm.. why isnt this video working please
666Desolate999 6 months ago
Plath's references to Jews were not to emphasise ill-intent towards Jews OR Germans. It was simply an act of defiance towards her father who she both hated and loved. By stating that she is a Jew, she is saying that he was like Hitler, or a Nazi. Her soul was not hideous, simply her history. Her father was Austrian and immigrated, but it was simply imagery; careful selection of emotional phrases used to state a point: that she hated him and defied him like a Jew defies Hitler simply be existing.
NorthernProphecy 6 months ago
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" I feel like a Jew."
Your soul was hideous like a Jew, Sylvia.
OldSchopenhauer 6 months ago
@OldSchopenhauer gosh, shut up.
Lamuertequemuerde 6 months ago
I love how her voice cracks when she gets emotional. so sick of actors overperforming poetry, so this makes a difference. the writer knows where the emphasis should be.
smithhedgehog 6 months ago
CONT..
It may be different than hers but I remembered how I was irritated by my parents and then I go out and actually see myself in them when I'm with others. It's startling and for once I am grateful than I recognized myself in a poem and not the other way around.
KageroShiva 7 months ago
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KageroShiva 7 months ago
I first came across this poem about 6 years ago and I used this as a superficial demonstration to say I love poetry. Now, as I listen to this, Plath is indeed very good and for a person who has accumulated enough experiences and realizes how your fears can manifest and translate from one aspect of your life to another, you begin to have a very deep and moving experience.
KageroShiva 7 months ago
Sylvia Plath would've | should've | could've been a great Joy Division fan.
DaftSwank 7 months ago
@DaftSwank Oh my God she so would have been! I love both her and the band but I never thought of connecting them before. I can imagine her listening to "Disorder" or "Ice Age" while smoking a cigarette.
MrHeslopian 6 months ago
@DaftSwank Joy Division??? Sylvia's writing style would most likely fit the musical styles of Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, and Alanis Morissette considering how painfully confessional they all are.
Mr1991ladarius 6 months ago
@Mr1991ladarius I like Ian Curtis lyrics more than Sylvia poems. The jar bell was wistful and sad book.
MrLepa91 6 months ago
happy fathers day
joebstarsurfer 7 months ago
@joebstarsurfer :D
TheMrMysteriouso 7 months ago
I want to put this on my ipod and sleep to it i love it so.
Peaceattack3feb03 7 months ago
@Peaceattack3feb03 you could if you find a cd with this on, and you transfer it from that into itunes. :-)
smithhedgehog 6 months ago
but they pulled me out of the sack, and stuck me back together with glue.
finitenoir 7 months ago
She's the one woman I would bring back alive just so I can F*#K! Right after she has read me some of her poetry.
a70skid 7 months ago
@emaresea hahahahaha nice
Alec13243546576879 7 months ago
Happy Father's Day, everyone!
emaresea 7 months ago
i'm reading "the bell jar"...now...i don't know if i want to pursue this...her writing is....yes, sharp as a knife and glittering, but it inflicts pain...do i really want to share this? why are we drawn to such poignancy....it is exquisite, yet profoundly unhappy....
kevinjconroy 8 months ago
@kevinjconroy It's the book I've identify with the most and I'm not that unhappy. I just think no one is happy or completely miserable. We just live. I don't know haha. I love that book.
menajapo 7 months ago
@menajapo well, yes....to be able to write so well is a positive thing....ok...i guess you are right, because there are moments in the book when i have thought and felt the exact same thing she is describing, only i couldn't put it into words.....but still....there's something that makes me uncomfortable....but i am drawn to it at the same time....i don't know either ha ha
kevinjconroy 7 months ago
Very intense. One never forgets this poem. So many tangled knots of hate and frustration. Her journals are very dark as well.
catwomyn77 8 months ago
totally not the voice i suspected she had..
Username12avail 8 months ago
Oh daddy daddy the tv jews,
Painted for me you,
And today,
If i you were arab,
I wonder if would be so stupid,
As to die for the same,
Deceitful picture,
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shillbuster 8 months ago
This poem enraptures me.
Cian2e 8 months ago
she says this about her father and then goes and commits suicide on her own children.
DarnDiggityable 8 months ago
@DarnDiggityable good point
kevinjconroy 8 months ago
@Stefandurr Ppl have said that about Sylvia, but you also have to remember the time period. She was a single mother in France. She had a lot of issues. She could've gotten more help if it was today. We knew less then, and one of the things they would've said was to "tough it out." It's easy to judge what goes on in someone else's life and ill mind.
tigerslilly29 8 months ago
@tigerslilly29 she was not a single mother in France. Although she was single, she was an American poet who lived in England until her suicide.
Calvin2Cool 8 months ago
@Calvin2Cool Sorry, I'm just getting crap confused. She had something to do with France? I thought she lived there. Either way, she was pretty much alone with her children. I would hope she would've had more help today. It's a very sad story.
tigerslilly29 8 months ago
@tigerslilly29 Born in America, studied in Cambridge UK, worked in USA, moved back and lived in London, then moved to Cornwall and back to London where she stuck her head in an oven and died of carbon monoxide.
Calvin2Cool 8 months ago
@Calvin2Cool Yeah, I know she's from America. Sad story.
tigerslilly29 8 months ago
@Calvin2Cool It's almost as glorious a life as RL Stevenson.
edmund184 7 months ago
This is a beautiful poem and she has such a soulful quality to her voice. It is so saddening that her most gorgeous quality is what ended up killing her. I admire her and always will admire her.
MrPaulHaw 9 months ago
Somebody has daddy issues.
ProjektLament 9 months ago
@Stefandurr Depends on the suicide. I said it was brave and now, just a few days later, I'm not so sure about it. I'm really sorry for her children. Maybe there was nothing more to fight for, for her. Sometimes there are no alternatives for a person and you never know, it's up to you to judge somebody, it's not wise. It requires a lot of courage to kill oneself, to push it to the end. It may be an honoured decision, but again: it depends. Hers was a tragic end.
fbaraglia 9 months ago
this actually sounds like gwyneth paltrow..
iwannaholdyourhand14 9 months ago
There's way too much stigma surrounding suicide. People who feel that way are in intense pain, and when someone tells them they're wrong or crazy or a coward for feeling that way, it just makes things worse. If your hand was on fire and you obviously need to put it out, you ask for help and someone tells you you should be brave and tough it out...well, you're going to lose your hand, aren't you? If that person helped instead of putting you down, you would be in one piece. They need help and love
MercyPiano 9 months ago
Suicide is not selfish, it is desperate, and sometimes desperation can lead to selfishness, but the act itself is not intentionally selfish. But the bottom line is NOT to argue about what suicide is and isn't, if you think suicide is wrong THEN YOU SHOULD TRY TO HELP. Reach out to somebody and DON'T JUDGE. Support and love. Suicidal people hate to be judged, they get it from everyone. We need love not hate. We need to share our hearts. Sylvia's poems were asking for help when she couldn't cope.
MercyPiano 9 months ago
@Stefandurr
actually, I find it quite brave.
fbaraglia 9 months ago
This lit a feminist fire in the 60's. This poem is so ambigous and empowering. I cannot get enough of Sylvia, she speaks from the soul.
Teenager2thecore 9 months ago
I LOVE HER♥
suicidalbitchh 9 months ago
no her father died when she was eight
Shipfacedotcom 9 months ago
Is this from the BBC recording?
plathtacular 9 months ago
One time a fellow said "she might be speaking of 16 different people here" at the time I didnt say nothing, but I do now...there is no way someone writes a poem to their father and talks about someone else...
The reason she used so many references is due to the fact that she didn't know him.
Lillogambino 10 months ago
@Lillogambino She knew her father, she just thought that he wasn't interested in her. She says it subtly, but he was always preocupied with the news, wars, etc, and never asked her how her day was. He wasn't much of a "daddy"
VAxMissyxVA 9 months ago
@VAxMissyxVA To have lived with a man, a father for that matter, and in such a brief period is not the same as to know him...
Lillogambino 9 months ago
Chilling as a father & a husband. But how was the video created?
smurphy92627 10 months ago
Her style of reading somehow reminds me of German poet Ingeborg Bachmann...
berndschumannsvideos 10 months ago
wow.........love her reading...
MrJerryk55 10 months ago
Wow
Alec13243546576879 10 months ago
The "if I've killed one man, I've killed two" bit always gives me goosebumps. she was an incredible poet.
nikkormatte 10 months ago
What a strong voice!
Such emotion, it really changes your perception of the poem.
missash70 10 months ago
Better than Justin Beiber.
vichiousfishes 10 months ago
@vichiousfishes Oh my fucking God. I'd have thought a Sylvia Plath video would at least be free from stupid thumbs up seeking comments about Justin fucking Bieber. Don't you retards understand that you're helping his career by giving him so much attention? SHUT THE FUCK UP! I don't give a shit about your opinions regarding some nothing pop star. And anyone who does is an idiot.
MrHeslopian 10 months ago
@MrHeslopian Thank you. I'm sick of seeing his name on EVERY video. It pisses me off a little more each time.
laurarox80 10 months ago
I really think people are missing the point of the poetry here. Stop searching for any tiny bit of autobiography in the verse and appreciate as the poet wanted you to. Plath didn't write poetry to tell everyone about her life. It's such a shame that Plath's admittedly tumultuous personal life has overshadowed her career as a poet. Forget anything you know about her, then read her again! Remember that the poem was written under the assumption that you don't know her most intimate details!
wayfaringstoner 10 months ago
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aballest2003 10 months ago
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@wayfaringstoner That's true. It enhances the poetry experience to not be aware of every dirty little detail of something that isn't even our business. It enhances the mystery of such a narrator, a character. It's wonderful when the mind wonders and wanders.
aballest2003 10 months ago
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aballest2003 10 months ago
Thank you for uploading this! I have to wirte a research paper on Sylvia Plath and this should help me! Thank you again!
BlossomSunshine 10 months ago
Im never through with this poem. So much to unravel, discover, appreciate....true craftswoman.
KELSCENE 10 months ago
For more information on the life and works of Sylvia Plath, please google "Sylvia Plath."
johnnyjounce 11 months ago
Why does she say she was ten when "they buried you".. She's speaking of her father right? But she was 8 when he died..... The brute she says that she married, that is Ted Hughes right?
agentpixel 11 months ago
@agentpixel Quite right! Also, the part where she says "So I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look" was in reference to Ted Hughes himself who was known to where black clothing all the time.
MrBazBazBaz 10 months ago
@agentpixel Yes she was 8 when her father died, just like she was 21 when she attempted suicide and not 20 as stated in the poem. She does this to emphasise the ritualistic aspect of how her father's death affected her. Every ten years for her is a kind of ritual that needs to be paid in blood. Plath's poetry was greatly influenced by mythology and this is one of the many instances where she incorporates it.
mydoglikespie 10 months ago
.Listen to what the words mean and stop pretending !.
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Brattt0010 11 months ago
She sounds a barrel of laughs.
doggydoggycatwoman 11 months ago
Sylvia can see beyond death, beyond life... she was dead while she alive and lives after death
Alekseyyyyyy 11 months ago
@Alekseyyyyyy Sylvia lives after death, you say? In that case.......Have a wicked pissah day, Syl.
lankenaugirl 11 months ago
lol at 1:14
0wnN00Bz 11 months ago
hearing her strong voice make her story a lot more tragic.
paramorekol 1 year ago