My plan is to get smart enough to understand this.

@sleepykaraokelady1780

5 жыл бұрын

entertain7us14 😂 i feel you

@biquettesauvage1

3 жыл бұрын

You must not understand the words, you must feel what the words brings out in you. Poetry is supposed to be evocative, not explainable, if it is too simple, it lose its magic.

@entertain7us148

3 жыл бұрын

@@biquettesauvage1 nice! That’s how I’ve always felt about poetry too!

My comprehension level of this poem is around 10%.

Poetry is the truth, and this is why we're here.

KZread and the internet is the insurance for the fact that we'll never see genius like her again.

@ivetradanova4907

5 жыл бұрын

What if she's reborn?

This is the poem that rearranged me from the inside out.

Anybody else thinks of this poem as mirroring astronomical phenomena? The beginning is like The Big Bang, and the ending (the 'drive into the red eye') is how our planet will eventually end in the Sun's expansion as a 'red giant.' It's clearly the Sun she means anyway, as it is also the Sun at dawn that she perceives while riding out. She seems to say that her suicidality is congruent with the futility of life on Earth as scientific fact. This sense of life's futility as a source or object of depression is also mentioned in The Bell Jar (and probably in many places outside of Plath's work; I think it’s pretty much what depression is about). She turns that mental disorder into a force. Anyway, I always get this astronomical perspective while listening to this poem and take it for granted, but I've never seen it written out in any review of the poem.

thank you so much for doing this. you are wonderful to keep her amazing work circulating in any way that it can. and it means so much to get to hear her read her work herself.

The video goes with the poem beautifully. Bravo.

Fabulous! The video does justice to the poem. Really a great job!

love this so much ...

named after this...

what a coincident there was a masterclass ad about poetry before this video

My favorite poem from her is "Dialogue Between Priest and Ghost", but this is good as well. As all her poems are.

The poem's underlining meaning is a depressed person waking up out of their dream (which sounds like a nightmare expressing her life through symbology where she is being forced to be someone who she is not) to a new suicidal day. (The red-eye Coldren of morning) is the sun. In this instance, the sun is blazing in her eyes, unpleasantly reminding her of all of the pain previously mentioned in the poem. (the child's cry melts in the wall) is a reference to her not expressing what's she going through as she is silenced by secrecy or by force. (Am the arrow) refers to her being the center of her own pain shooting into the day or the sun. Referencing one's self as an arrow in this instance would indicate a wish for self-harm. To sum it up, the poem is about an endless depression and a wish for death but from someone that wishes life were different. That's what I make of it anyway. Sylvia Plath was thirteen years old when she wrote this poem. I think Sylvia Plath was also somewhat mentally ill and it shows in her disjointed poetry. And her constant depressive themes. Poetry that expresses a comprehensible idea is far more desirable and would sell better.

@lukaj2883

2 жыл бұрын

She was not 13 when she wrote it, she was 30. But yes, she suffered from severe depression for the majority of her life, ending it with suicide.

8 people never got past Doctor Seuss lol

"Belfast" from french band Indochine brought me here :)

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Does 'the child's cry melts in the wall' indicate that she leaves behind her cares, her identity as a parent, and is living in the moment? I also never quite got the 'foam to wheat' image. I do like this poem very much, though. The last line makes me well up every time.

@ghostintheheart

6 жыл бұрын

RLviddy This poem you really have to feel kindred to Sylvia in spirit to understand fully, but it's not complicated. I can tell you that it's about her riding her favorite horse, Ariel, and that it's an allegory. As the poem progresses, the rider is losing her grip on the reigns, but stays on, surrendering herself to the chaos.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sylvia cant believe she passed away at 31.

@wallyaloud

2 жыл бұрын

Not even 31 yet, only 30

Oh!

The Cure - Ariel

I so desperately want to recite this poem aloud, but I fear doing so due to the poem's use of "the n-word".

@Jm-uu3mp

4 жыл бұрын

The concepts of the poem are so much bigger than the word. It's usage is not under the same context as it's normal hatred and taboo. And if you're audience is too daft to see that, they don't deserve to listen to Plath.

@godllizaa

4 жыл бұрын

If ur confident enough to say "nigger-eye" and u understand why such language was used then go ahead. If u believe it would not suit a modern audience then say "black-eye" The meaning would not change but the effect of the metaphor would differ

@almi5260

3 жыл бұрын

@@godllizaa most people nowadays are too daft or easily triggered, like a spooked herd of sheep that's lost all sense of real art

@godllizaa

3 жыл бұрын

@@almi5260 consider others. Change the world🙏

There once was a gal from Nantucket.........

Who's the author of this animation?

Wow she had an English accent I didn’t know that

@OllyBockus

3 ай бұрын

NO, she does NOT.

What's this video from?

@spucill1

6 жыл бұрын

The film was made by an experimental filmmaker Sandra Lahire who died in 2001. She made three films around Sylvia Plath. Information on her is on wikipedia

Don't you understand she is independent she is intelligent and she is an intellectual. This poem is very personal. Ted's cheating hit her in a monstrous way, she couldn't deal with it. She write but what her life. She is ill, in more ways then one. She had no shining eyes, she was plain and Ted preferred then sexy. She committed suicide defeated.

当然了一个人走不好意思不过分z路