There's something breathtaking about hearing her read her own work. You can hear and feel the emotion in her voice.

@jbullets2175

8 жыл бұрын

true, just what I was thinking

@mckavitt13

7 жыл бұрын

That IS the point.

@jbullets2175

7 жыл бұрын

No shit

@ciarapixie5928

6 жыл бұрын

I think that's why I found that so much more visceral than any of the other readings of it

@MrS22222

4 жыл бұрын

Bitch is completely insane.

Her voice is deeper than I imagined....but I love this.

@Tempe1962

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Ly -Its not rude at all! Its just an observation and I too was surprized to hear her voice.It doesnt fit her looks but I cant explain why other than to say I imagined her with a higher voice.

@lavanyabubna9528

4 жыл бұрын

@@Tempe1962 same i imagined her with a higher voice too

@TheV-Man

3 жыл бұрын

Could it be the recording hardware of the time? Old recordings always sound funny.

@MustObeyTheRules

2 жыл бұрын

Slightly distorted I’m sure

@michaelbaker3920

2 жыл бұрын

@@MustObeyTheRules i always imagined her dead

"I could never talk to you...the tongue stuck in my jaw, it's stuck in a barbed wire snare." Powerful imagery. One of my favorite poems

@williamdowd1024

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

@Justin_Ly

6 жыл бұрын

Double entendre !!!

@Tha_Monsta88

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like some s&m stuff

you can feel her voice breaking...the reading is BRILLIANT, perfect...her own voice does it perfect justice

@identitycrushchicago

7 жыл бұрын

camilafanmary what the fuckin hell

to all the people who say that Silvia made suicide "chic": depression is a disease. I find it moderately unfair to antagonize Silvia for the effects of what she did to herself because of her mental illness. She was a great poet, that is unrelated to the fact that no one was able to help her overcome the illness within her own mind.

@bethel99899

8 жыл бұрын

+PredictableScenario Have you read "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman? Gilman used her writing to explore the role of women in America at the time. She explored issues such as the lack of a life outside the home and the oppressive forces of the patriarchal society. Through her work Gilman paved the way for writers such as Alice Walker and Sylvia Plath. Plath most likely struggled with much of the same issues Gilman did. Men in particular have made it really bad for women. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the husband's "cure" for his wife is more of a sentence. This has mostly been the treatment of women for a long time. Their education and literacy has only just been realized. We are far from equal.

@Cindy-sn9nh

7 жыл бұрын

PredictableScenario yes...whether bipolar or other, she struggled and suffered...

@matthalbmaier6113

7 жыл бұрын

PredictableScenario since when has suicide ever been chic?

@ziadalmaliki9665

7 жыл бұрын

That illness caused by her father

@cherishtheday2223

7 жыл бұрын

PredictableScenario She was mentally ill because of the really dark and real evil that was occurring in her life.

''If I've killed one man, I've killed two- The vampire who said he was you And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know.''

As an American, her accent is very soft, lovely.

@nosleep7357

5 жыл бұрын

Ellie, it was probably influenced by her living in England however

@roadlesstraveled34

5 ай бұрын

She has the Transatlantic accent. It's a learned accent of the upper class and stage actors primarily in the early half of the twentieth century. It's a highly noticeable accent, if you watch old movies you'll notice it in nearly all. Katherine Hepburn, Franklin Roosevelt, and Gore Vidal all spoke with it.

Who says this is ill? This is genius poetry.

@MrS22222

4 жыл бұрын

Being that her dad was American soldier and she gassed herself and her daughter, yeah, very ill.

@Beemdog

4 жыл бұрын

literally fuck off. what do you mean this is utter shit. WHy Am i StudYing THis FUCK ME!

I like the contrast at the very end, pairing the childlike "Daddy, daddy" with "bastard". I has an odd, but very interesting effect.

Imagine dedicating this poem to your father on father's day....

@nicoleboggs5583

3 жыл бұрын

Lol hahaha

@rebekazidan49

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to do that .. 🙂

@avatar_07

Жыл бұрын

you didn't get it

I was ten when they buried you At 20 I tried to die, and get back, back, back to you

She could have been an actress with that performance.

@nancyrose8028

7 жыл бұрын

She was in drama clubs and did plays! So, I guess she was.

Sends shivers down my spine. She sounds as if she's going to cry and her voice is really heavy as if drenched with something.

I don't think it's necessarily bad that it succumbs to its anger. "I USED to pray to recover you" leaves no doubt in the reader's mind that Plath is not ready to forgive her father, nor does she intend to to the end of the poem. The inability of the poem to end happily makes it so powerful.

I love how her voice cracks when she gets emotional. so sick of actors overperforming poetry, so this makes a difference. the writer knows where the emphasis should be.

60 years soon you still haunting this empty page thorough and through

I never imagined her voice to sound like this when reading her works, but now that I have heard her speak I don't think I will read her work any other way. The way she reads is so poignant and powerful. It is so sad that her voice was lost so very soon.

@Justin_Ly

6 жыл бұрын

Did she die by a tree you facist !

@deathbytree5009

6 жыл бұрын

Justin Ly eat shit bobby flag

this video is even scarier than the poem itself...

Sylvia, I speak to you as if I know you You've saved me from a pitfall so dark I am no longer alone

@wallisroughead6841

4 жыл бұрын

Sylvia Plath, your death anniversary is only a few days before my grandads. You died two or so years and a few days after my grandparents met.

I could listen to her read a phone book.

@8angst8

3 жыл бұрын

Really? I could not. This "Daddy," for example, was in such a stilted British accent. (Probably the Boston accent would have sounded as pretentious.)

@6a66y69

2 жыл бұрын

Same

@nicolemilman1795

2 жыл бұрын

@@8angst8 having lived in either RI or MA for much of my life, I can say that to me she sounds like an educated woman, of that certain time, from the Boston area.

omg..... u can just feel the pain she's going through, it's so heartbreaking

@Justin_Ly

6 жыл бұрын

yeah lol

This is my favorite poem by Plath, and it's so amazing to hear her reading it.

Each time I read this poem It seems extremely thoughtful and clever. Listening to it in Plath's voice is a delight.

Umm, we at Hallmark thank you for your submission, but it is not quite what we are looking for, in Our Annual Father's Day poetry competition. It is too long, and the mood not a happy one.

@adrielgideon3825

5 жыл бұрын

ummmm this was submitted for a fathers day poem? or was it a joke?lol😂😂🤷‍♀️

@stanleyharding2906

4 жыл бұрын

@@adrielgideon3825 What do you think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@MikePuorro

4 жыл бұрын

Priceless, thank you for this post.

Few non-actor people read poetry like she did. Awestruck, I'm always.

I love her voice near the end when it falters a bit. There was real emotion poored into this poem. Ah, Ms.Plath, rest in peace.

So much pain and depression....Loved the poem.

@naaoinitiative2021

5 жыл бұрын

Profound pain - that’s the underlying verse of sylvia's each poem

I just love this woman, her darkness encapsulates me

This woman, her voice is so haunting and immediately creates an impression on you from the moment you hear it. Her works are brilliant and this poem is so exception.

So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root, The voices just can't worm through. Brilliant.

@nicoleboggs5583

3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful picture of how we can cut off toxic parents

@cockoffgewgle4993

11 ай бұрын

Rhyming "through" and "through", genius.

this is beautifully read and completely from her heart. Sylvia is a genius.

@sherij8694

8 жыл бұрын

+Lauren Tomlin Sylvia 'was' a genius. She passed away in 1963.

A beautiful, deep, rather theatrical voice - mixing her native America & her borrowed Britain.

@angryangora

4 жыл бұрын

I think she sounds like my Bostonian grandmother.

@ihatemickiegee

Жыл бұрын

yeah i don’t think it has so much to do with britain, it was actually a common voice of women at the time, and a common accent of east coast women at the time, pitch obviously differing between the person but yeah. the reply that said it sounds like her bostonian gma sounds about right!

Wow. Just wow. Ms. Plath was a genius.

She had such a chilling voice!

Hauntingly beautiful...

Wow she was such a talented writer.

While this poem is difficult for its’ disturbing content, it has an underlying truth. Perhaps this is what makes Plath’s work so unsettling-- the dark subjects she writes about are dark and disturbing, but they are undeniably honest.

I wish someone would comment on the actual film which was made by an important experimental filmmaker, Sandra Lahire who was given the rights to use Plaths voice. I think the Hollywood film made on Plath didnt have these rights. Olwyn Hughes gave this right to Sandra. The film is called Lady Lazarus and was part of a trilogy of films Lahire made on and with Plaths voice reading her poems.

@Max-Blast_Media

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was wondering where these audio recordings were coming from. I was just about to give up when I saw your comment. It gave me exactly what I needed to continue my research.

@fazalahmad6557

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't/couldn't watch the video the first time because of the power of her words, but occasionally I took in the visuals and they certainly helped the imagination.

@tanyachadha2819

4 жыл бұрын

Where can I see this?

wow! amazed she could maintain the composure to read this very personal emotional poem!

"daddy issues" of a different kind! If you know your craft but you can't get rid of your demons

Gorgeous voice and poetry. Sadden she didn't feel life was worth living. :(

@Vicky-hc4su

8 жыл бұрын

+Rosie Summer Actually, if she wouldn't have felt that way she wouldn't have created all that powerful, beautiful poetry and her novel.

@Vicky-hc4su

8 жыл бұрын

+Vicky Yellowstone Thank you! I always say that! People like simplyfing life too much, if it were simple everyone would know how to live it!

@a.l2563

6 жыл бұрын

Too much pain to handle. That was my daddy.

@jameshogan6123

3 жыл бұрын

When one reaches those depths it’s not that they think life is not worth living, it’s that the pain , the burden and despair become unbearable.All of which can be read in the torment etched on her face and in the timbre of her voice before we even begin to examine her written words. ..would that your at peace Sylvia.x

@ihatemickiegee

Жыл бұрын

Really, she did think it was worth living- she wrote about the good quite a lot too. she knew it from the innocent and pure happiness of her children although she feared of their loss of innocence. she knew it from the love she did feel, the beautiful things that did bring her joy. It’s feeling almost like… you’re not the one worth HAVING the life; feeling AS IF you’ll never be strong enough to live through the bad/suffering that does exist as much as the good/beautiful of it. it puts a bleak light on everything that makes it seem like it couldn’t possibly get better: and when that bleak light stays even when you get married to someone you love (and love them despite how they treat you), even when you have children and love it even when it’s extremely difficult, even when you achieve some success, and so on, then it seems like there’s no use in waiting any longer to see if it COULD get better, it makes you think “how could it get better after now? i’m already X age” (any age w suicidal tendencies will make you think that any good thing that youve experienced was already your only peak) … i’m rambling now, but read the bell jar. it’s fiction but absolutely semiautobiographical and tells a LOT about what reallt went on in her head thru everything. obviously same with her journals, just more intensely so. the novel is just brilliant regardless. but the journals share many of those beautiful epiphanies/moments i mentioned, along with many of those bleak ones, and paints an altogether rare portrait of what can lead someone to that point even if they still have many amazing things in their lives and believe life can be beautiful. again, sorry for the tangent and hello to all you wonderful fellow plath fans xxxx

It’s heartbreaking and terrifying at once. What a disgusting man daddy was and yet...it’s still daddy. Life is never black and white, it’s just shades of grey.

I love that line "a cleft in your chin instead of your foot"

Is 'the vampire that sucked my blood for seven years' a reference to Ted Hughes?

@miken9819

8 жыл бұрын

Yes. Sylvia is alluding to hughes there

@isabelmartin8427

6 жыл бұрын

"Ted Hughes" woulda been a good end rhyme for this villanelle. 😂

@pintatatphpaobe9563

4 жыл бұрын

I think so, but it's also alluding to her own father. All the men seem the same to her.

@10mimu

4 жыл бұрын

@@pintatatphpaobe9563 All the masculine figures of authority. God. Daddy. Hughes. The Fascists. All the same vampire.

@hinasofy229

4 жыл бұрын

@@10mimu yup. She hated men. Even in her novel "the bell jar", every male character is portrayed as evil

She is so awesome. Her poems always sound good. Sylvia Plath is my favorite poet.

I’ve been studying SP’s work for over 40 years and she is a great voice, a genius. Her long apprenticeship in poetry was necessary to produce ARIEL.

She has a peculiar mixed American and British accent.

probably my favorite poem ever. her voice is so soothing to me.

Haunting, yet exceptionally beautiful.

I listened to this 30+ times and it makes me always deeply emotional. There’s also a sense of comfort, knowing you and a lot of others fellow humans share this. In this line “ If I’ve killed one man, I’ve killed two” lies the essence of being human. Thank you for your words! I know, you’ve all your life doubted your greatness a poetess but I assure you’ve reached the souls of millions. Rest In Peace

a beautiful intelligent woman.

That poem always brings chills down my spine... especially the way she read it.

thank you sylvia for this masterpiece im in tears

She was a genius. Happy birthday, Sylvia. RIP.

What a strong voice! Such emotion, it really changes your perception of the poem.

what beauty. what grace. simply a beautiful, disturbed, and beautiful mind. Her Poetry is art and she shall live through it forever. Rest In Peace Sylvia Plath.

She knew her father and she was devastated when her she lost her father. Her words express the sadness and depression of how she feels

Gives me chills.

*Bag full of God*

There are no words to express how much I love Sylvia Plath's poetry.

One of the greatest poems I've ever come across. I read or listen to it at least once a week.

We're old again, I see you Sylvia - Plath - Your adieu. I miss you.

Wow...Very expressive, to say the least

on her Institutionalization: ... and they put me together with glue/ And then I knew what to do ...significant and relevant to her suicide ...maybe?

You need to make more videos like this. Not just for Sylvia Plath, but other poets. This video inspired me to write.

In love with this woman... Her voice! ❤️

This is lit

@lema95

8 жыл бұрын

I c what u did there

@joedavis4150

4 жыл бұрын

More like rancid barely smoking Embers

I just found out my estranged father is dying and this was one of the first things I thought of and turned to. I feel her anguish and understand it.

This is the only Plath poem I like because I can completely connect to her message. I'm not really into poetry but this one is just so powerful, it stops me in my tracks!

i have been enjoying Plath's poetry and prose since 1982. this is brilliant to hear a quality recording of her most well known work.

I have no words to describe the excellence of this video. Amazing. My favourite poem by Plath, read with the sharp of killing tongue.

This has to be my favourite poem of all time. After hearing this I always pronounce it similarly - Plath's work is brilliant.

she had a great gift and its tragic that she couldnt see it herself or get beyond herself to realize how amazing she really was her voice is so haunting

my favorite poet is her. she was so talented.

daddy, why did you eat my fries?

@softsix

9 жыл бұрын

YES!

@claire__6719

7 жыл бұрын

tomorr ow why the fuck are you even on this video? you're so immature

@lpseden4704

7 жыл бұрын

its a reference, claire

@claire__6719

7 жыл бұрын

LPS Eden no way really i didn't know

@gaussagain

6 жыл бұрын

'Why did I eat your fries? All the better to garner KZread replies.'

Sylvia Plath was incredible

I have all of her books. I love her works and her voice. She reaches down into you and rips out everything you try to suppress when you read her stuff. At leas that's how I feel. She's my favorite.

a beautiful poem beautifully read by one of the greatest poets of our time, i simply adore her...after more than 40 years from her death it still feels like we've lost so much without her

I love her voice. It's the voice I always imagine when I'm reading Emily Dickinson.

She was such an amazing poet It's a real shame she went so early xxxxxxxx

i can't even express all feelings, which this poem and THIS READING provoke every time, when I listen it. she was so essence of divinity and wistfullness... there are no place for her in this world ever.

It's wonderful to see her and hear her.

My God. I just got goosebumps.

Why does it make more sense when she reads it?

Absolutely stunning. Brilliant brilliant writer.

wonderful..God..Sylvia Plath is so amazing..and such an amazing voice..

It IS Sylvia Plath reading it, and it is the official BBC recording from 1962. She recorded about twenty poems in her own voice, and this is one of them. You are obviously quite ignorant. So what you are really suggesting is that you could put more feeling into it than Sylvia Plath herself? Lol.

@jenniferbeetz7335

3 жыл бұрын

oops, I'm 13 years too late- but who made the slide show? it's superb.

@riyadas131

2 жыл бұрын

Cannot say enough thank you for this video

Searing poem, stunning recitation.

simply beautiful.

Wow!! That was...I'm speechless. Seriously. That was beyond amazing, she was way ahead of her time.

"It's not my version of a Father Day's card."

Stunningly chilling.

Absolutely stunning, powerful. a Brilliant Writer indeed.

This is a beautiful poem and she has such a soulful quality to her voice. It is so saddening that her most gorgeous quality is what ended up killing her. I admire her and always will admire her.

That cross rhyme though.

@Boddah.

9 жыл бұрын

Which one?

@joshdean5404

9 жыл бұрын

Like, the whole poem!

was this the face that launched a thousand ships/and burnt the topless towers of ilium/sweet sylvia, make me immortal with a kiss.

Thank you . I've never enjoyed that poem as much. Rare gem.

that voice! so, i dont know, so tempting, so full, so full of meaning..

I feel like sticking my head in an oven. With that said, her voice is marvelous.

@nicoleboggs5583

3 жыл бұрын

🤭😂