Edge- Sylvia Plath

My personal tribute, for my English class, to the great poet and tragic figure Sylvia Plath.

Edge

The woman is perfected
Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity

Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare

Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.

Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little

Pitcher of milk, now empty
She has folded

Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden

Stiffens and odors bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.

The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.

She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sylvia
• Plath
• Edge

[godecoolass]

So good! Can you post the poem?

With what origram did you make it? It's amazing!

[banahna33]

I made the movie in iMovie. The poem is now posted under more info.

[PsychoAnnalist]

The lady was cursed with insight.

[RavenStGermaine]

simply amazing.

[QueenOfTheAubergines]

guys, don't be so harsh- if she wrote this for an English class, then she is presumably not a professional at this, and obviously something written at school won't be perfect.

Personally, I think this is very good; I certainly couldn't do something this good.

[measles908]

I liked it... up until the whole cheesy ending. :)

[pcurrency]

This is really good. Well done

[jmichaeleugenio]

This is disgusting. Reinacting the literal act of her suicide, playing dress up, and then cutting the scene with an amateurish touch and a melodramatic tune is exactly not the kind of empathy that poetry demands. Sylvia Plath was much more complex and nuanced than this mocking rendition tributes. Her deadpan stir should haunt and echo through our memory, not be falsely reduced through play acting. She even mocks this notion in herself and others in Lady Lazarus.

[skinkist]

superb voice

[frogwart70]

I feel like reincarnation is a theme here

[jeangeniex3]

Thank you for this<3

[wisernow46f]

it is the shallow, satirical emptiness of the stereotypical masses that caused Sylvia to lose her place in this world as she was so far removed from this type of garbage. Have you no respect for her work or her life? Is it death that you fear so greatly that you must mask that dread with tacky sarcasm?

[SwissBajee]

wow, that was beautiful :)