I deeply appreciate your revealing insights into Plath’s work. It humanizes her as like many of us, her world often feels too much. A sensory overload that blurs the lines between present and other, reality and fantasy.
Almost like the opposite ideas of Wordworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us”…he regrets feeling removed from nature’s powers, while Plath seems to wish perhaps a little reprieve from them.
I deeply appreciate your revealing insights into Plath’s work. It humanizes her as like many of us, her world often feels too much. A sensory overload that blurs the lines between present and other, reality and fantasy.
Almost like the opposite ideas of Wordworth’s “The World is Too Much With Us”…he regrets feeling removed from nature’s powers, while Plath seems to wish perhaps a little reprieve from them.
I love how you bring Wordsworth in here. That poem especially is a poignant contrast with much of Plath’s work...
Sylvia Plath was such a genius! Her attention to poetic nuance inspires my own poetry. I recently wrote an essay on her play for voices, Three Women.
Wonderful analysis. I appreciate Plath more now as a sensory genius although without ultimate life lesson or purpose. Thank you.
Thank you for the thoughtful newsletter. I have some reading to do if her work now.
I think you captured very well her "out-of-body" phrases that painted things often by dealing with the gray spaces in between. thanks