Sylvia Plath's Grave

[posypity]

For a certain Sylvia's grave the poetess's voice is strange as an angel's, her hair, being much more persuadable than she, falling blond locks of femininity. She, understood only, by her own poems; rhythms which rest so unhappily.  by Posypity.

[checkingavailabilify]

Graves are so depressing. When I die I want to be cremated, have my ashes throw out to sea and have that be the end of it.

[19eightyseven]

not to mention publishing her journals after her death. how much did he make from that?

[Alcrosbie123]

She put her head in an oven

[Alcrosbie123]

Well it was kinda her fauLt

[edmund184]

Sylvia Plath contemplated suicide before she even met Ted Hughes. Blaming him for her death is just sick.

[19eightyseven]

@edmund184 didn't help that he left her despite her sickness

[oldsyphilitic]

@19eightyseven Al Alvarez, who had the greatest respect for Sylcia, both as a poet and as a woman, said that 'we all abandoned her- she was difficult to be with'. Ted Hughes loved Sylvia and continued to do so for the rest of his life. If you look at her poetry you will see that in trying to find her voice she felt she had to sever all those links that she felt ensnared her Ted was one of this links. Look what she said about her father whom she loved very much. Nobody is to blame

[fadsandfancies]

how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth

[Mollweidekadet]

If what's true? Hippies drugged out of their heads sprawling all over her grave? Yeah, that happened!

[Taffy630Tiger]

Interesting. Marvellous poet, and Hughes unfairly blamed (cf Miller and Monroe)

[chambernine]

i love this video. It is sad she is dead.

[Mollweidekadet]

Hughes was brilliant.

I went up to Plaths grave though the other day and there were a couple of hippies there drugged out of their minds, one of them was actually sprawled across the grave laughing and trying to right herself.

Talk about a lack of respect.

[choclitrayn]

@Mollweidekadet The majority of my family is buried there. Disrespectful Hippie cunts

[paulwehner]

It's more likely he destroyed the work in an feeble attempt to stave off the growing personality cult around her. She's such a confessional poet it's hard to imagine she wasn't writting about her deep dissappointment in her marriage and Hughes. It's likely he detroyed any work critical of him out of pride and perhaps a survival instinct. The Plath party was quite vicious towards him the rest of his life.

[paulwehner]

Hughes was not a hack. And the statement that he destroyed her work out of jealously is a vicious cannard from hairy 60's feminists.

[amarbleinspace]

paulwehner. all women are hairy unless they shave it off or wax it off i know beacause ive seen video's.

[CirrusBluesummers]

Hahaha, well we learn something new every day. I'll have to ask my sister if this is true or not. LOL

[nemo528]

the idiot bird leapt out and drunken leans

the hour was crowed in lunatic thirteens

sylvia <3

[QUANTUMLORD18]

One thing that is not a myth about Sylvia Plath's life, is that Ted Hughes destroyed a great ammount of her writing and correspondence after her death,motivated quite transparently by the inescapable realization that she was a far superior Poet. Hughes was an establishment hack poet (poet, with a small:"p"). Little wonder that people want to erase his name from her headstone.

[oldsyphilitic]

@QUANTUMLORD18 When we make comments such as 'he or she was a superior poet', what we are really saying is that 'I like them better' They say something that resonates deeply with our being. Ultimately we are dealing with is opinion, however refined. That said, one statment in your piece I cannot let rest is, 'Hughes was an establishment hack poet'

Hughes was- is- a towering figure in C20 English verse and he helped Sylvia find her own voice.

[gobbledygook12]

Plant no tree where only a bush might grow,

that no tortured windblown seed might fall,

beyond Elysian fields.

[clementcooper]

Go there Mr Haslam!