Comments on: I think I made you up inside my head http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head Sat, 15 Oct 2011 02:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-215925 Anonymous Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:37:00 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-215925 i agree that too much has been made of her suicide. other artists have killed themselves but not attracted so much focus I think it is partly because she is a woman it is hardly documneted for example that Mark rothko killed himself(my favourite artist) In "letters home" you get a real picture of her life and it is full with much happiness and there are many poems when she focus on the positve especailly when she writes about nature i agree that too much has been made of her suicide. other artists have killed themselves but not attracted so much focus I think it is partly because she is a woman it is hardly documneted for example that Mark rothko killed himself(my favourite artist) In “letters home” you get a real picture of her life and it is full with much happiness and there are many poems when she focus on the positve especailly when she writes about nature

]]> By: Mose Gyllenband http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-172644 Mose Gyllenband Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:04:46 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-172644 Excellent post, I will save this in my Furl account. Have a great evening. Excellent post, I will save this in my Furl account. Have a great evening.

]]> By: Firas http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-171985 Firas Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:25:34 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-171985 Annita, it's a modified version of <a href="http://getk2.com/" rel="nofollow">K2</a> Annita, it’s a modified version of K2

]]> By: Annita Weichel http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-171841 Annita Weichel Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:00:06 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-171841 What theme is this? Can't wait to start my own blog. What theme is this? Can’t wait to start my own blog.

]]> By: Anonymous http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-82674 Anonymous Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:21:27 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-82674 Ahhhh! Young love. Ahhhh! Young love.

]]> By: Firas http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-5487 Firas Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:43:37 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-5487 Anonymous, I said "shrieking guttural howl" as a description, not as a dismissal—I actually like '<cite>Daddy</cite>'. The 'before/after' thing was just a way of phrasing, I wasn't making any claims about the differences between her periods of writing. (The 'suicide doll' criticism is not of Plath's work per se, it's of interpreters who trivialize her work by focusing too much on her suicide.) Anonymous, I said “shrieking guttural howl” as a description, not as a dismissal—I actually like ‘Daddy‘.

The ‘before/after’ thing was just a way of phrasing, I wasn’t making any claims about the differences between her periods of writing. (The ‘suicide doll’ criticism is not of Plath’s work per se, it’s of interpreters who trivialize her work by focusing too much on her suicide.)

]]> By: Anonymous http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-5463 Anonymous Fri, 11 Aug 2006 12:20:55 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-5463 I'd just like to put in my two cents on the cavalier dismissal of Plath's later work as "shrieking guttural howls like Daddy": while the poem "Daddy" is, I agree, an example of emotion overtaking art, most of Plath's later work more closely resembles this poem than that one. Don't mess. I’d just like to put in my two cents on the cavalier dismissal of Plath’s later work as “shrieking guttural howls like Daddy”: while the poem “Daddy” is, I agree, an example of emotion overtaking art, most of Plath’s later work more closely resembles this poem than that one. Don’t mess.

]]> By: Firas http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-4044 Firas Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:28:38 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-4044 <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/40586" rel="nofollow">More villanelles by Plath</a>. More villanelles by Plath.

]]> By: livia http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-3952 livia Mon, 19 Jun 2006 04:28:06 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-3952 hey did sylvia plath write any more villanelles? hey did sylvia plath write any more villanelles?

]]> By: Firas http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head/comment-page-1#comment-2696 Firas Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:37:32 +0000 http://firasd.org/weblog/2006/03/25/i-think-i-made-you-up-inside-my-head#comment-2696 Kassad, I appreciate the response—I hope you feel better soon. I think some of those excerpts are taken from The Bell Jar, which I have yet to make myself read through—I keep getting bored with the tone in the first few pages, well before the good parts (I can't put my finger on what exactly about the early narration turns me off, maybe that it's somewhat of a bored mixture of smugness and blandness detailing this-happened-then-that-happened). My introduction to Plath was not from her writings but to her as a concept (the famous depressed author who wrote Ariel and The Bell Jar before sticking her head in an oven, etc.) Despite having once been yet another despondent teenager inducted into a grotesque fascination with her, I don't like her actual writings much! Perhaps the tragedy of Plath's legacy is that because of her iconic status it's hard to tell where, in our ideas as readers and commentators, responses to Sylvia the Artist end and those to Sylvia the Life begin. But that's partly her doing, because of the confessional, 'Sylvia the Mind' nature of her work—maybe fussing about the person behind the words is inevitable. Kassad, I appreciate the response—I hope you feel better soon.

I think some of those excerpts are taken from The Bell Jar, which I have yet to make myself read through—I keep getting bored with the tone in the first few pages, well before the good parts (I can't put my finger on what exactly about the early narration turns me off, maybe that it's somewhat of a bored mixture of smugness and blandness detailing this-happened-then-that-happened).

My introduction to Plath was not from her writings but to her as a concept (the famous depressed author who wrote Ariel and The Bell Jar before sticking her head in an oven, etc.) Despite having once been yet another despondent teenager inducted into a grotesque fascination with her, I don't like her actual writings much!

Perhaps the tragedy of Plath's legacy is that because of her iconic status it's hard to tell where, in our ideas as readers and commentators, responses to Sylvia the Artist end and those to Sylvia the Life begin. But that's partly her doing, because of the confessional, 'Sylvia the Mind' nature of her work—maybe fussing about the person behind the words is inevitable.

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