Alvarez on Sylvia Plath
She was a valued poet. During poetry classes held in numerous academias and workshops, there was always something special about her work. Poetry students kept thinking about her life, and the readers curiosity got aroused. And I, like the other writers and readers came always peeping on her poetry and the life that wrote that poetry. She was married in 1956 to Ted Hughes, who was also a notable poet. The critic A. Alvarez wrote in his personal essay that maybe this was why she and her husband had temporarily parted, it was a question not of differences but of intolerable similarities.
From time to time, upon reading the personal essay of Alvarez about Sylvia Plath, there was a certain part of her life that was quite similar to ordinary mothers who worked for a living, took care of babies, and did domestic chores. No doubt, the plainness of Sylvia’s life, was as ordinary as anyone’s, but intolerably complicated because of the imaginary thoughts of her being a prolific and serious writer. She deemed a surrendering responsibility in writing, even in the dead hours (between night and day), despite everything that blocked her way. She always thought deeply and was in constant association with her muses, facing her private horrors, involving deeply with her writing prompts.
In the course of her life, she attempted suicide many times and had been spared, on some occasions, because of what she believed to be miracles. In one of her poems, She even said that she had nine lives, like that of a cat. She had survived deaths, she sardonically felt herself was fated to undergo once very decade. This made her wrote freely, experimenting with death. According to Alvarez when Sylvia read her poems “She was always hot and full of venom.”
Sylvia Plath gave the readers a poetry of wonders. And of course, empathy and praise for her courage which no human science could explain. Even her doctors tried to help her.
“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion,” said Michael Bakunin. The playwright and professor Tony Perez said that in Creative Arts there are Thanatos loving people. In Mythology, Thanatos is the Greek personification of death.
Check this out:
“I have once done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it –
A sort of walking miracle…
I am only thirty.
And like the cat, I have nine times to die.
This is Number Three…
Sylvia Plath
A Alvarez is an English poet and critic. He wrote the essay “Sylvia Plath: A Memoir.”
Rose Flores Martinez
2.28.2010
IShallWrite
She was a valued poet. During poetry classes held in numerous academias and workshops, there was always something special about her work. Poetry students kept thinking about her life, and the readers curiosity got aroused. And I, like the other writers and readers came always peeping on her poetry and the life that wrote that poetry. She was married in 1956 to Ted Hughes, who was also a notable poet. The critic A. Alvarez wrote in his personal essay that maybe this was why she and her husband had temporarily parted, it was a question not of differences but of intolerable similarities.
From time to time, upon reading the personal essay of Alvarez about Sylvia Plath, there was a certain part of her life that was quite similar to ordinary mothers who worked for a living, took care of babies, and did domestic chores. No doubt, the plainness of Sylvia’s life, was as ordinary as anyone’s, but intolerably complicated because of the imaginary thoughts of her being a prolific and serious writer. She deemed a surrendering responsibility in writing, even in the dead hours (between night and day), despite everything that blocked her way. She always thought deeply and was in constant association with her muses, facing her private horrors, involving deeply with her writing prompts.
In the course of her life, she attempted suicide many times and had been spared, on some occasions, because of what she believed to be miracles. In one of her poems, She even said that she had nine lives, like that of a cat. She had survived deaths, she sardonically felt herself was fated to undergo once very decade. This made her wrote freely, experimenting with death. According to Alvarez when Sylvia read her poems “She was always hot and full of venom.”
Sylvia Plath gave the readers a poetry of wonders. And of course, empathy and praise for her courage which no human science could explain. Even her doctors tried to help her.
“The passion for destruction is also a creative passion,” said Michael Bakunin. The playwright and professor Tony Perez said that in Creative Arts there are Thanatos loving people. In Mythology, Thanatos is the Greek personification of death.
Check this out:
“I have once done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it –
A sort of walking miracle…
I am only thirty.
And like the cat, I have nine times to die.
This is Number Three…
Sylvia Plath
A Alvarez is an English poet and critic. He wrote the essay “Sylvia Plath: A Memoir.”
Rose Flores Martinez
2.28.2010
IShallWrite
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