Sylvia Plath reads "The Stones"

[posypity]

i love the way she says 'flew off like the hat of a doll'

that surely is the most upsetting image to see when you're a child.

[vickiehill1]

Genius. Another of my favorite poets/writers. Makes me weep when I think of her sufferings & tragic end. Her work is just absolute perfection.

[demimooreisawsome]

Can anybody explain what this poem is about please?

[DrewArriola]

@demimooreisawsome She wrote it when she was hospitalized, "the city were men are mended".

[xeitaps]

@demimooreisawsome

It is Plath's poetic recollection of the first and injudicious shock-treatment she underwent in the state hospital, preceding her first suicide attempt.

You also can try to read her novel The Bell Jar, in which she describes this period of her life. It will throw some light on her poems.

[Kirstyyyy9]

@swiminthissilense Hello! Wow I totally forgot I commented on this - Haven't got the tattoo yet, still deciding :)

[akatsukibabe123]

Her words are absolutely intoxicating, how she arranges words together like stars. I really love her poetry.

[xxoogossipgirl]

sigh. i want her to be here next to me reading this, dammit. how wonderful would that be.

[Hallo2244]

My writing is profoundly influenced by Sylvia. She is a demon with words - she knows how to seduce you. I'm so glad I got to hear her voice, I never knew these were out there. Thanks so much for the share!

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."

[666Desolate999]

A family wrought with such tragedy,

some may not understand why i say this.. but it is because of these tragedies that makes her poetry become more and more beautiful. i guess it is a proof of it's sincerity

because what is more depressing than a pretentious poet?.. a dead poet!.

[aboo12195]

she makes me want to throw myself with reckless abandon into the world of poetry; i feel i need this beauty to breathe.

[Lukasz21222]

I like her poetry this is sad that she died so young! R.I.P Sylvia

[Molokai17]

Is it just me, but can you hear TS Eliot in her verse?

[LukeK79]

@Molokai17 Explicitly in her last poems. No critic seems to have picked up on this however, which is puzzling to me, as she makes direct reference to Eliot in a number of these works - i.e. Eliot's "Where is there an end of it, the soundless wailing..." from The Dry Salvages compared to Plath's: "And there is no end, no end of it..." from Gigolo. She seems to have been responding to her literary heroes in the last weeks of her life, being simultaneously part of a tradition and utterly alone.

[AcerbusEquinomin]

Sylvia Plath is such a brilliant poet. She is as fiery and phoenix like as her poetry is...and yet, I find it sad that such disrespect is being laid to her art and her memory by the seemingly neverending repulsive comments that are posted under videos such as these...

Still, I will not complain about the video, because it is wonderful to be able to hear her voice in her own words. Maybe that just makes it all the more worthwhile to listen. Thank you very much for posting! She is brilliant!

[RLviddy]

@zakartaz You're only proving me right.

[zakartaz]

@RLviddy lol if you came to that conclusion apparently your the only person with that problem... not that I would really give a fuck abt anyone else... now what were you saying abt ignorance? you demonstrated that very well... this conversation is over.

[RLviddy]

@zakartaz I thought so.

[RLviddy]

@zakartaz You went through all my videos and downrated them, and left offensive comments. You're blocked, and reported. Get some help before you implode from your self-hate.

[EuropaRed]

lol sounds like she would like to kill you to

[zakartaz]

Studies show that maternal filicides are often due to depression and psychological reasons by woman. That is contrary to a paternal filicide. The definition of a filicide is murders against children by their parents. Three out of five child homicides are filicides by woman which are proven to be their first choice..... anyway but now that you have an idea let me be so I can enjoy Sylvia in peace.

[zakartaz]

"When women kill - and they do so at astonishingly lower rates than men who commit 85% of all homicides - the vast majority kill family members, usually men who have battered them for years or their chrildren. As many as 90% of the women in jail today for killing men had been battered by those men." The Boston Globe

[Helios601]

I think it's safe to say she was insane?

[zakartaz]

@Helios601 Not insane just depressed. If she was mentally ill it would most likely lead to murder instead of suicide, and as a woman her victims would have been her children or husband those closest to her. She was sane enough to not do that.

[EuropaRed]

@zakartaz true

[RLviddy]

@zakartaz As a woman it would have been only those closest to her? Man, these generalizing comments on Sylvia Plath videos show the persisting ignorance.

[zakartaz]

@RLviddy Excuse me? Is it ignorance or just hard for you to understand if it is coming from a man? I don't have time to get into this now but here is a quick copy and paste maybe you can also research and educate yourself on this topic... first i do not think Sylvia Plath was mentally Insane I think her depression just got the best of her....

[RLviddy]

@zakartaz You said that the victims "would have been" x, y, z. An absolute, and there are few of those in the world. And you did not support with a reference until called on it. That was the only point I touched on--the generalizing and absolutisms. Your defensive response and dismissiveness are over the top.

[zakartaz]

@RLviddy well thank you for touching... if you like I have something else you can touch on ;)

[zakartaz]

This will always be my fav.

[seekortry]

I would have fallen head over heels in love with this woman. I am unsure how one can be unfaithful when you love each day plays out the notebook of your wife who is one of the greatest poets alive and who also was remarkably attractive. I dig the schism with the father and men. Everything. She was a dangerous love one had to take very good care of -- like Little Prince's Rose.

[ravenCLI]

I missed her by less than a year. I would have been there to save the Sappho of the Century (in London). I was there; but she came late to me AND I bleed for her still.

Affection that reaches back through time ... she is here now, with me now in Old Town Toronto. And all our chidren are dead, also. corbeau 16,V.MMX.

[iddity]

Is it on the edge of town, with pallid couples whirling round and round?

[Rosiexxmyrearendxx]

this is a sunday night where one is scorned

dus find yourself wrapped up in mourn

and in that morn chorus breaks

a sick man is fed well with tremors and quakes

[iddity]

Cancer cells burgeon; they require the ministrations of a surgeon..

[iddity]

Uma Cherooty is a tiresome tick.

[ivano0o0o0]

omg..shut the fuck up

[iddity]

Where have the importunate crickets gone?

[Rosiexxmyrearendxx]

well I have no bloody idea really Ron

[Rosiexxmyrearendxx]

christ all fucking mighty as this poem abso makes me fee;,to be dragged down yes me

look a ding bat she doesnt care ; the time will smell anon I'll look after you there

[IrmaCerrutti]

Shit soothes the tool nozzle,

And Aurora sexually abuses the body beautifuls Weltschmerz on the electric fence.

The copulators are full of beans,

[IrmaCerrutti]

This is the anal-soreness: I knock into the unchaste.

A travellers diarrhoea untampons the glory hole

Of the knob, impotent penetrator.

[IrmaCerrutti]

The offal catheters get a half-nelson on me. Neanderthal men fondle my lichens telescopic.

The spunkseaman tugs his tool to give the once-over

Unplug unisex boomerang anus.

[IrmaCerrutti]

The vagina-prick gobbing their ecosystems.

Tosspot as a hippopotamus

I squish at the squash of gaucherie.

[IrmaCerrutti]

In a sperm of retards.

The Britishers of the brothel bugged the body beautiful.

They frolicked the boomerangs, shtum and extraterrestrial,

[Rosiexxmyrearendxx]

Sylvia Plath was a beautiful woman,incredible life story.Thankyou for posting her poetry.

[starletdempsy]

I love the way she talks.

[donnerbrandpear]

Such a gentler Plath than in other recordings.

[Kirstyyyy9]

I love Plath

getting I am. I am. I am tattooed down my leg XD

that might be a little gay but I love her poetry and writing

[emjayeights]

me too! I'm getting it on the inside of my wrist. Did you get yours yet?

[Kirstyyyy9]

not yetttt

cant wait thooo

:D got yours yet?

[emjayeights]

not yet, but i'm planning on getting it sometime this week. i'm super excited too. I want to get it on the inside of my wrist because it's a pulse point (you know like, "i am. i am. i am"), but I'm worried it would hurt too much there. So i don't know. thoughts?

[swiminthissilense]

@Kirstyyyy9 ahhh hii! i just saw your comment from like 3 yrs ago! did you ever get it? im saving up to get my first tat with sylvia prose

[crapo]

as in turn up the gas in the oven eh

[DrewArriola]

turn up the gas? stupid!

[sheepsick]

I would like to find audio of Plath but seems impossible!

[marcheheroique]

Where can one buy a recording of this? Is it released? I want to own it... Thank you very much for this upload, Drew Arriola

[DrewArriola]

John?

[LIBERALTHNKR]

You are welcome my lovely.

[Krokopajut]

What about such her poems as "The Manor Garden","Suicide Off Egg Rock" or "All The Dead Dears"? I'd like hear them.

[LittleMouth]

my favourite poem of all time.

[HILLARYXNOELZ]

It's great to hear the poem from the Plath herself. Thank you so much.

[CarrieQueery]

Really enjoyed hearing her voice. Thank you!

[oyealove]

Thanks a million for sharing this. Great post.

[lemonostiftis]

that was an awesome upload

cheers

[DavidRandallCurtis]

Thanks for posting this...