![]() ![]() ![]() "Daddy" good as it is, isn't even close to her best work (though it may be the most quintessential). Her work is good, and not about suicide (or sad things) at all. Sounds like I don't like her much, eh? Actually I have no problems with her-just her fans I find irritating. (Hemingway commited suicide too, but if I recall correctly people celebrate his LIFE and not his death.) And don't even get me started on all those who read Plath and practically no other poetry. Every word she wrote is put through the lens of her suicide. ![]() See, she has a group of followers who just about worship her to the point of Tori Amos's fans, where everything she's done is meaningful and perfect. I half-wonder if anybody can really be objective about her work. Only Byron may be as difficult in seperating the personality from the work, and with him we at least have a good bit of time since the works were actually written. Whoo-boy, nobody has given me more trouble than Sylvia Plath. ![]()
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