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― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 3 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

I've read most of "Ariel" and so far it's very searchable, so classic despite annoying whiny teenage fans, who are maybe mostly imaginary anyway.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 February 2003 13:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Paltrow as Plath in forthcoming movie: C or D?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38407000/jpg/_38407361_gwyenth_300jpg.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:03 (twenty-three years ago)

D! D! D!

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:13 (twenty-three years ago)

That was for GP as SP btw.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Morning Song

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival.
New statue. In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 3 February 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Before I did a big report on her for school: Classic
Afterward: Dud
I do like The Bell Jar though.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 13:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Poetry, like everything else, is an art. She did it exceptionally badly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything is Ted Hughes' fault. *Everything*

― Lara (Lara), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:18 (twenty-three years ago)

If you have a username on Spring Street Networks personals (the one with partnerships with Salon, the Onion, the Village Voice, etc.), then check out this profile nickname: "blackberrying"

― Sylvia, Tuesday, 4 February 2003 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

I am amazed that Lara likes Sylvia Plath, for I thought it was only neurotic mad people who did this.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I was a whiny teenage fan of 'The Bell Jar'. I think reading it had a negative effect on me.

― Amity (Amity), Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: The Collosus
... is brilliant.

― Orbit (Orbit), Thursday, 12 February 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Sylvia Plath's son takes his own life

― Chris Barrus (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 23 March 2009 08:54 (seventeen years ago)

Gosh thats sad. That whole family - and Assia and her child - the whole thing's such a cycle of mess. I admit I do like plath, and I know that's uncool, I dont have any kind of teen gothy "I understaaaaand herrrr" thing (in fact, I think of her as an emotional vampire) but I am fascinated by the whole story and how it structures around both her and Ted's poetry.

― one art, please (Trayce), Monday, 23 March 2009 09:13 (seventeen years ago)

In the words of a different poet: they fuck you up, your Mum and Dad.

― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 23 March 2009 09:19 (seventeen years ago)

that's just infinitely sad. :-( like trayce i like plath. not from an "understanding" point of view, but... well i just adore the bell jar.

― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 23 March 2009 10:27 (seventeen years ago)

The Plath-reading undergrad-girl is such a cliché for such a recent poet

― Plaxico (I know, right?), Monday, 23 March 2009 10:36 (seventeen years ago)

This truly is sad...

― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 23 March 2009 10:46 (seventeen years ago)

Although there is acceptance that depression can be inherited, there is no known suicide gene that could connect Dr Hughes's death to his mother’s.

what the actual genuine fuck, the times.

― horses that are on fire (c sharp major), Monday, 23 March 2009 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

What not to do

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BA7X67eCEAEY_BD.jpg

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2013 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

yeesh, that's horrendous.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:34 (thirteen years ago)

you have got to be KIDDING ME

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:36 (thirteen years ago)

(also the background arm looks almost hairy like a man's arm which is kinda lol)

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:37 (thirteen years ago)

she is so great

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 18 January 2013 23:38 (thirteen years ago)

thirteen years pass...

huh

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is set to make her big screen acting debut in an adaptation of Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar.

According to Deadline, the 24-year-old will take on the lead role for Sarah Polley, the writer-director who previously won an Oscar for her Women Talking screenplay. Eilish is reportedly in advanced talks for the part.

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 11 March 2026 19:02 (two months ago)

sarah polley bell jar adaptation will in fact kill me (complimentary)

― ivy., Wednesday, 11 March 2026 19:03 (two months ago)

same same same <3

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 11 March 2026 19:37 (two months ago)

Timmy Chalamet as Ted Hughes

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 March 2026 19:44 (two months ago)

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