Any Plath experts got any helpful ideas for my essay?
Whose side is the body on in Plath’s poetry and to expose ideas of the body as both an enemy and as an ally?
Any Plath experts got any helpful ideas for my essay?
Whose side is the body on in Plath’s poetry and to expose ideas of the body as both an enemy and as an ally?
Hi Josie. That sounds like a homework question to me. The best thing would probably be for you to read the material closely and think about those those things yourself. Good luck!
I am having trouble trying to make sense out of what it means for the body to be on someone's side. I usually think of the body as an ally, but I don't know what Plath would have thought. She did put her head in an oven after turning on the gas while her young children were sleeping in another room. She probably didn't think that last act through carefully or maybe too carefully. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath#Suicide
I suspect she viewed her body as an enemy. Not being in her mental state, I don't know what I would have done.
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Sounds like an essay that could be written about David Cronenberg's work as well.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
Yes, the article mentioned that she put wet towels around the entrance to the other room. I don't know how much that actually sealed anything off, but she did think about her children. I wonder what would have happened if the gas exploded? What about her neighbors in the apartment building?
I've read a few of her poems. She's famous. I'll admit I'm a philistine. I didn't like them.
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I eat men like air.
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
I wonder if she thought she would rise from the gas fumes coming from the oven like the narrator in her poem "Lady Lazarus": http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178961
It would make more sense if she wrote "I breathe men like air."
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Sylvia "I breathe gas like air" Plath.
So with the courage of a clown, or a cur, or a kite jerkin tight at it's tether
That makes even more sense.
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