Saturday, September 24, 2011

Hearing Sylvia Plath's Voice

Poignant and original is how I would describe the poetry of Sylvia Plath (1932-1963). The emotion is raw and her imagery intersects a wide range of moods. Listening to her on a CD convinced me that she could shift her emotions on a dime with little effort.

I read Plath's biography The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath earlier this year. Previously I had never read any of her work unitl I began writing poetry this past January. Her was poetry was different to me because of the raw and honest emotion in them. Plath's anger in the poem Daddy was like a volcano ready to erupt.

Plath is classified as a confessional writer along with other writers such as Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton. After listening to her own voice on the cd, I can still feel her raw emotions in ther taut and tense voice. I am doing more research on heer life and work.

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