Why should you read Sylvia Plath? - Iseult Gillespie
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Date: 2020-08-22
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Senior
The Bell Jar was the very first and one of the only books Ive read that captures what it can be like to lose your mind.
I went through a period where I had seizures every time I fell asleep. The toll on my body and what the sleep deprivation was doing to me was very scary and isolating, reality was warped and stagnant. Even after I got better it made me feel like I lived in a different world than those around me.
I was so shaken to see writing that clearly captured what I had gone through, when I had felt so alone in this experience I thought of as indescribable.
Esthers story is amazing.
The novel ending on a positive note, despite the fact that Sylvia killed herself not too long afterwards, still gives me a weird hope. Like you can still hope and work for a better future, even if you dont end up being there.
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The Bell Jar was the very first and one of the only books Ive read that captures what it can be like to lose your mind.
I went through a period where I had seizures every time I fell asleep. The toll on my body and what the sleep deprivation was doing to me was very scary and isolating, reality was warped and stagnant. Even after I got better it made me feel like I lived in a different world than those around me.
I was so shaken to see writing that clearly captured what I had gone through, when I had felt so alone in this experience I thought of as indescribable.
Esthers story is amazing.
The novel ending on a positive note, despite the fact that Sylvia killed herself not too long afterwards, still gives me a weird hope. Like you can still hope and work for a better future, even if you dont end up being there.
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Ankita
She is one of my fav writer. Her words resonate with your heartbeat. I first read one of her quote on Pinterest obviously during my dark days and thought I wanna know about the writer. I was shocked to know how she died, It was one of the worst ways of dying while reading it all I was teary eyed.
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She is one of my fav writer. Her words resonate with your heartbeat. I first read one of her quote on Pinterest obviously during my dark days and thought I wanna know about the writer. I was shocked to know how she died, It was one of the worst ways of dying while reading it all I was teary eyed.
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Universalist
Please do one on Fernando Pessoa. He should be much more known in the English speaking world, like he is in the latin countries. He was such a multiform genius. Very few poets could create three different poets, each one with a diferent style and personality.
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Please do one on Fernando Pessoa. He should be much more known in the English speaking world, like he is in the latin countries. He was such a multiform genius. Very few poets could create three different poets, each one with a diferent style and personality.
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cruel
her unabridged journals alone are just such a treat. i was 15 when i first read it, barely in touch with the english language as it wasn't my first (nor my second, and it made me fall in love with the language. it was so well-written yet so easy to understand.
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her unabridged journals alone are just such a treat. i was 15 when i first read it, barely in touch with the english language as it wasn't my first (nor my second, and it made me fall in love with the language. it was so well-written yet so easy to understand.
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Merryle
I rise with my red hair. When I was in my darkest depression, I wanted to end my life. Plath's Lady Lazarus saved me. I dyed my hair the reddest red and faced another day. Now I am in a better place. Sylvia Plath is a blessing in my life.
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I rise with my red hair. When I was in my darkest depression, I wanted to end my life. Plath's Lady Lazarus saved me. I dyed my hair the reddest red and faced another day. Now I am in a better place. Sylvia Plath is a blessing in my life.
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J. M
I first heard about Plath at age 30. Like her, I was depressed and had been for many years without treatment. I so understood her pain and I appreciate her existence. Who was her husband again? I already sense sleaze and boring.
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I first heard about Plath at age 30. Like her, I was depressed and had been for many years without treatment. I so understood her pain and I appreciate her existence. Who was her husband again? I already sense sleaze and boring.
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Jay
If You're a fan of Sylvia Plath, you might be interested in my musical interpretation of Mad Girls Love Song over on my page. No pressure, but if you do head over, enjoy!
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If You're a fan of Sylvia Plath, you might be interested in my musical interpretation of Mad Girls Love Song over on my page. No pressure, but if you do head over, enjoy!
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Yonathan
As a poet myself I don't think there is anyone as brilliant as plath, sure there are a lot of great thinkers but still plath is one of the best.
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As a poet myself I don't think there is anyone as brilliant as plath, sure there are a lot of great thinkers but still plath is one of the best.
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Can
lovely video: ) but just a reminder. Sylvia Plath was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression. Not clinical depression.
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lovely video: ) but just a reminder. Sylvia Plath was diagnosed with bipolar disorder (manic depression. Not clinical depression.
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Sigma
Not really a neutral perspective happening here but yes depression is integral to intelligence. Thank god she got published
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Not really a neutral perspective happening here but yes depression is integral to intelligence. Thank god she got published
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