I’m sorry but what was “extraordinary” about this when he abuses her, serially cheats on her and then leave her to fend for herself in the 1950s when women had a very limited sense of autonomy (or means) so that she kills herself? Am I missing something?

@morganlafey6791

Жыл бұрын

I think her daughter is!

@laranassar99

Жыл бұрын

I think so, that's really weird, I can't understand what was the extraordinary thing!!

@adh-dream

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention that he had also hit her so hard that she had a miscarriage.

@arigirl4536

Жыл бұрын

All of the things mentioned have been spoken about time and again. This is a daughter speaking about her parents, whom she, no doubt, loved. They probably were deeply in love at some point. Sylvia surely was. One can only hope that Ted loved her a fraction of that once upon a time. I did and do love, the brilliant, Sylvia Plath. ❤

@arigirl4536

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if Frieda had children. One would think these things would be passed down for generations. I hope whoever gets/ got them cherishes them. I would. ❤

I suppose it's easier for a child to believe their parents shared an extraordinary love for each other.

@Althom1990

10 ай бұрын

I suppose total strangers know better?

@ciaraskeleton

9 ай бұрын

Her parents were both creative, so I suppose it's easy for her to fantasize, and romanticize the relationship

@EvWuzhere

8 ай бұрын

In this one instance i dont think its entirely unfair for people who have poured over sylvia's work and journals and biographies about her life or whatever to assume they know more than her children did about her life. Because her kids were 1 and 2 years old when she died, so they were fed information or given a narrative just as much as any outside audience would have unfortunately- their first hand experience with her is sadly so limited that it doesnt give them much of a leg up in terms of knowing her compared to any outsider...

Their "extraordinary love"? He sounded like a textbook narcissist and she kill3,d herself after he cheated on her & abandoned his family. If that's love I'll happily stay single.

A cautionary tale, there is no love greater then self worth. The rest is addiction.

@ananyadutta1154

2 жыл бұрын

Oh. My. Goodness! Your words Aliya ma'am.

@joyona7430

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your beautiful and powerfully stated wisdom.

@jimnewcombe7584

Жыл бұрын

For a poet, the only thing that matters is poetry.

@SapasMons

2 ай бұрын

FACTS!

She was very young when her mother died so her memories of her father would be more vivid kind and loving She will therefore never know of her mother's despair of the humiliation of his constant affairs

This is bittersweet. No matter how much they were in love with each other, that somehow changed towards the ends with Syvia Plath herself describing the abuse she suffered in her letters.

@RabiaJabeen28

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's so sad that nobody wants to talk about the bitter end of their relationship.

@Sleepflowrr

2 жыл бұрын

She was beaten by him cheated by him, as a woman why would I want to keep it?

Unfortunately Ted Hughes greatest love of his life was himself. I wish Sylvia Plath had never met him. The problem is that she thought she had found her perfect man, and nobody is actually that perfect.

@xavierekrus5083

Жыл бұрын

Sadly there is a level of narcissism to being something like that.

@puterboy2

Жыл бұрын

If it hadn’t been for Sylvia, there would be no Iron Giant.

He treated her like shite.

What I don't understand is why these precious items have been sold and separated for eternity. Why were they not housed at an institution ? Freida did not need the rather paltry one million dollars they brought at auction. The royalties alone from her parents writing must be substantial. There are no grandchildren from Ted and Sylvia to provide for. These 'beautiful things" have been scattered around the world. How sad.

@MargotHypnos

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. A state library would take then all, archive and preserve them. Individually up for auction, someone's looking to cash in on the money.

The beginning at 3:40 It was like listening to Sylvia herself, having your mother's voice must be such a beautiful and amazing gift.

@sadem1045

6 ай бұрын

100%

I am from India. In my class 10 year 2010 there was a poem THE MIRROR . Teacher orders us to make a file on any poet or author from textbook . I chose SYLVIA PLATH . When I came to know the way she died I felt , so emotional. From that time I always remembered her. Today I came across this video .

Why on earth would you sell your family's legacy ? No one would take care of it better than you in your lifetime. And if you have no kids to leave these treasures to, then to a museum they belong. So sad.

@mildredhighcock7333

Жыл бұрын

to make your boat lighter so you don't sink

right. This is totally not about the money, of course. If you really treasure all of this and does not want the value to be lost, just give it to a museum!

Sylvia Plath was so gifted and talented.

Love at its most brutal and abusive . Frieda really ? Some people will do anything or sell anything for money!

Her voice quality--as I'm sure she has been told--is reminiscent of her mother's, even from hearing Plath's voice via recording. #trainedearsneverlie

Frieda…you truly got your mothers grace and beauty. Thank you for this amazing video

@martydav9475

3 жыл бұрын

Like her mother, she is tall and graceful.

@AvecPoesie

3 жыл бұрын

@@martydav9475 She also possesses a similarly rich timbre and tone of voice to her mother's.

Should be kept as a collection somewhere. Not split off around the world.😮

Incontestably brilliant, Plath had a heart so fierce that Hughes could only feel important in comparison by destroying her sense of feminine value. He slapped and hit her, which resulted in a miscarriage. And yet even in her anger, Plath remained devoted, idealising him and their love. Hughes upped the ante: he began to have affairs. In public, Hughes played Plath’s champion well but refused to pull his weight domestically and emotionally, meaning her ability to write was impaired. Abandoned by him with their two children in a foreign country, she rapidly disintegrated. A thoroughly nasty piece of work.

@itheuserfirst3186

2 жыл бұрын

She was a handful. She was promising. He was brilliant. Her mental illness was her downfall from the start. It was always going to end that way. We're talking about poets here. You don't strive to become a poet, unless you're crazy.

@lesleybrown1583

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!!

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

Her letters could have been written by a love sick 14 year old. Not a supposedly intelligent young woman. Most poets are self obsessed narcissists and Hughes was classic example.

@momcatwoo

Жыл бұрын

He was brilliant and compelling but he was not a good man.

@steaktooramen23

Ай бұрын

He was jealous ok

I assume the reason she’s selling now is that Uncle Warren died last year, so she is really the last of her mother’s line who remember Sylvia directly.

@Sleepflowrr

2 жыл бұрын

Hugh's family liked Sylvia, they never accepted Assia. What about them?, she must have cousins and nephews at least.

@sadem1045

6 ай бұрын

Actually, she was only 3 years old when her mom died. I really doubt she has any memories of her, and her brother didn't either (he was only 2). By the way, may Nicholas and his mom Rest in Peace.

@bookofdust

6 ай бұрын

@@sadem1045 All the more reason to hold tight to whatever you have. If you read Frieda’s book from last year, George, you get a sense that she needed money for her new Welsh house, gardens and bird sanctuary she was building. That most likely was the impetus for the sale, especially due to her Australian husband’s dead weight and lack of income, but luckily they separated and I think divorced.

Just started to reread The Bell Jar last night upon rediscovery in the final cleaning & clearing of my childhood home last July. Could not be more grateful to have happened upon this video today. Thank you, Frieda. With love, Brittney

I was fascinated by hearing Freida talk of her parents and their love for each other in all its intensity and complexities. I was also curious about Freida's own artwork on the wall - she's very talented. Her garden is beautiful. Such a shame she also lost her brother.

He cheated on Sylvia too many times that she was tormented and deeplly suffered No longer to endure the pain, she took her own life.

@pianobanter

Жыл бұрын

History shows she was sadly tormented beforehand. She attempted suicide long before she met Ted. She had possessive tendencies herself. The night she met him she bit his cheek. That says a lot. Ted was wrong, he made terrible mistakes. They both lived intense artistic lives and their poems endure forever. No one can make you happy, they only add to your happiness. People make mistakes in thinking that coupling makes you happy, it doesn't really. Perhaps it would've been better had they both met people who weren't so driven artistically. Tragic story.n

@lurelurche

4 ай бұрын

If you read the belljar it says it's never about man

@dimar7641

4 ай бұрын

@@pianobanter Good to know .

These items should be bought as a complete archive; whilst both are striking, utterly talented individuals, their legacies are intertwined. Frieda speaks with great warmth and dignity. At the end of the day they were both her parents. Robin Witting

I really enjoyed watching this interview. Sylvia's daughter is just as beautiful as she is.

Incredible collection. The items Ted subsequently left to you will serve their own story.

It is strange how easily she says the words "My mother's ring fits just inside my father's ring" when they are capable of breaking the soul.

Frieda has no children of her own so I understand why she is willing to sell these items, still, considering how the story played out between her mother and father it is sad. Is that her garden and her pet owls? how wonderful.

@martydav9475

3 жыл бұрын

No she doesn't have any children and when she's gone Sylvia, Ted, her brother Nicholas (also suicide) and Frieda will all have gone.

@mildredhighcock7333

Жыл бұрын

yes that's her garden and house and she has a plethora of owls

"the extraordinary love" hmmmmm. Not sure if love includes lying and selfishly destroying the person you "love"

I grew up with Hughes' poetry, he was Poet Laureate in the 80s but visited my school to readvhis poems in the 70s. I only read about his wives many years later. Something about him attracted these disturbed women to him. (But all artists and poets are disturbed to some extent, arent we)?

Her mum and dad would be proud of her. The story of Ted and Sylvia is so famous that all these items will be cherished. When it comes to wedding rings- it's always so hard to know what to do with them...whether to bury them with the person, or remove them and keep them....

@AvecPoesie

3 жыл бұрын

That is quite true. I wear my deceased father's wedding ring on a necklace around my neck. He was wearing it in his coffin ⚰; but, my mother agonized about whether she should keep his wedding ring until the absolute last moment before they closed the top of his coffin. Just as they were closing it, she asked the funeral home to retrieve the wedding ring and off to the cemetery we went. Having it didn't bring her solace like she thought it would, though. It only made her too sad to look at so it sat in a drawer for years before I asked to have it. 🥺

just finished red comet so nice to see sylvias daughter i wish sylvia was there with her being taken care of by her loving daughter in her old age

Love the dogs and the owls!

With all due Respect Hughes had an affair with one of Sylvia's frrinds driving her into a depressive episode and suicide .

@WisteriatheFirst

10 ай бұрын

Yes. And when the mistress killed herself, she killed their child. Wonder why? They all had one thing in common. Ted Hughes.

@WisteriatheFirst

10 ай бұрын

Oops did not realize your comment was so old.

I'm so touched by seeing this woman, I hope I get to see the collection one day, is such a complex and profound life, perfectly documented for us, because Sylvia knew they were Huge.

so delighted to hear from the daughter of Sylvia Plath.. Love from Pakistan... ❤.. i felt extremly down when i read Daddy , Colossus and Lady Lazurus...

What a touching moment.

Ella si lo amo de verdad pero él no supo corresponder a ese amor. Que triste. Que vidas tan intensas. 💝💝💝

She sounds exactly like Sylvia! 🥰

Couldn't help but notice, 555 likes, 55 comments, at 15:55. 🖤

That's a sad story.

They sought a poetic life together.

Today on 30 April 2024 I read about Sylvia Plath and her extraordinary literature work especially poetry I am very much influenced about her intellectual power and her poetry based on real life....

The way she talks remind me so much of how Sylvia spoke! The pronunciation is super unique.

Wow. Amazing

She has her mother's voice

He did hurt her there's no doubt about that & there's no way in excusing the ways in which he had but he did love her at one time too, the letters are evidence of that, the poems too- & to be quite frank without that toxic turn having never taken place, we might not have the legacy of the poet that Plath became? She was like a bolide crashing through the atmosphere in words- all that pain & suffering harnessed into something so terribly raw, (wreckless) & yet inutterbly beautiful.

I don't really care for Ted Hughes and how he treated Silvia Plath however he was an amazing author.

I still cannot understand how anyone could auction off these utterly intimate objects. Is, was Frieda skint? I mean, she doesn’t seem to be spendthrift. Was it income tax? I don’t get it. My parents are both gone; I have a tiny house, very little room, but I keep all the items of theirs I have.

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

She obviously enjoys a certain standard of living - an extremely comfortable one - and can only maintain it by flogging the family silver..? ( it pleases me to hear how you treasure your parent's possessions .! )

Plath was very badly abused by bastard ted.

Short lived deep passion between lovers is not so extraordinary as FH imagines. Till-death-do-us-part commitment that puts dependent children and the wider community ahead of rising, falling, or changing passions--that is what is increasingly extraordinary. How's that working for us?

Extraordinary love? Don't you mean extraordinary abuse?

Neta (verdad) que no entiendo porque se mata Sylvia y Assia por un señor tan promiscuo. Su obra es muy buena del matrimonio Hughes- Plath pero sus desbordados apetitos y su nulo respeto por su familia llevaron a muerte a estás dos mujeres; también a Shura y años después a Nicholas. Que tristeza. Quizás en su matrimonio con la segunda esposa ya se haya moderado el poeta, quizás si, porque duro mucho tiempo con Carol. Da gusto ver a Frieda, toda una artista y con su familia 🍁🍁🍁 que bueno que se rompe la cadena de suicidios!! Abrazo Frieda!!

We only see letters from Sylvia to Ted, but where are the letters from Ted to Sylvia? Where is his love for her? We only see her passion and love in those letters...

Wow she speaks just like Sylvia

Frieda, don't you have kids, a partner you can rely on, a best friend? I wouldn't want to have a memory from a toxic man, yh a poet but mentally, physically abusive towards your mother, a memory of a suicidal relationship, your brother couldn't even take it anymore, your dad couldn't replace Sylvia as he tried many times, even another woman took her life too, not only Sylvia, so I'm sorry I'd never buy it even if I could afford all of it and I'm glad he suffered looking for love, his talent can't erase what he did to her.

@nicolelabram5575

2 жыл бұрын

Right On !

@nicolelabram5575

2 жыл бұрын

Frieda Has a great capacity for self deception. I would be embarrassed to talk about love in connection with her parents. Some people will do anything for money ! And Sell anything !

@2msvalkyrie529

2 жыл бұрын

It's often the case that the children of successful / gifted parents possess none of the abilities of their parents and are " forced " to earn a living by trading on their family connections.

She sounds exactly like Sylvia

Feel nice ...in India we r reading the laburnam top

Nice life 💗

I think I made you up inside my head.

If it is extraordinary it is not love.

Aren't the letters private love letters

I really really want the tarot cards

A person who is friendly with earth n sky why did she committed suicide? We only learn her poetry.

@mariedewitt5033

2 жыл бұрын

Her mother , Sylvia did, as did her adult brother, Nicholas, a few years ago. The woman Ted left Sylvia for also killed herself in the same manner that Sylvia did, in Sylvia's flat. That woman, Assia Wevill, gassed herself and her little daughter as well.. Tragedy all around.

In one way, his love for her seems all too ordinary - he left her for a younger woman.

@thecolonelpridereview

5 ай бұрын

In fact he left her for an older woman. Assia Wevill was five years older than Plath.

"they need homes"

This was intimate partner violence. how we can do better outreach for people with suicidal ideation?

He cheated on her, didn't he? He was quite sadistic. 🙄

He was such a monster

Wow! All the excuses that Frieda gives in this are a disgrace to her mothers memory. Most passionate and loving? You mean when he was doing the narcissistic 'love bombing' phase on her poor mother. Ted was narcissist. Sylvia and all his other numerous women were victims of narcissistic abuse. He was NEVER passionately in love! He loved NO ONE! Wake UP to narcissism. Read the ones where she talks about her father beating her mother and the miscarriage. Start to learn about narcissistic abuse here. kzread.info/dash/bejne/n2RozLmYobazYrg.html

@AnnabelleCharrier

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. People always bang on about Plath's "rage" and "jealousy" in the wake of Hughes' infidelity but reading her last letters, he sounds SO cruel. Plath sounds understandably hurt to me rather than vengeful. He made her feel ugly, physically unattractive compared to other women (not just Assia Wevill). This is a repeated theme of her last letters and it almost broke my heart. Still, the very fact we can read these letters at all is largely thanks to Frieda Hughes so I'll try not to be too rude about her father here.

@Sleepflowrr

2 жыл бұрын

I suggest this podcast of 2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/c5Z6ypWMp7C1Z6g.html he was a monster

@Sleepflowrr

2 жыл бұрын

Where are the missing 2 journals and the poems against him in Ariel?

@Sleepflowrr

2 жыл бұрын

Frieda should stop doing this, she made half a million 💵 so far. Hughs had a family that loved Sylvia despite the fact he never told them they were getting married, they never accepted Assia, I doubt they liked Brenda and Carole. There must be cousins and nephews. I'm sure.

@juliechen8710

2 жыл бұрын

You put it so well in your comment and I strongly agree with you. I don’t see any “extraordinary love” here. This is surely a case of narcissistic abuse where the beginning was love bombing and the abuse soon followed. Hughes exhibited many clear signs of narcissism. We are in a great need to be more aware of narcissism since it’s infested the society for so long without being recognized and called out. Narcissism should not be endured and enabled any longer.

I didn't know they had a daughter!

@omfug7148

3 жыл бұрын

A son also who sadly committed suicide about 10 years after Ted died, I don't think that Nick could live without him, and ultimately chose not to.

@martydav9475

3 жыл бұрын

@@omfug7148 Yes he was a professor (I think) of agricultural/environmental studies in Alaska/Anchorage. That interest in nature came from the fishing trips and so on he had with his father. Ted Hughes kept from Nicholas and Frieda the real reason for their mother's death, suicide, until they were young teenagers. I don't think Nicholas ever married or had children. He appeared to have lead a solitary, lonely existence. His suicide was an absolute tragedy. Sylvia commited suicide, Nicholas committed suicide and Assia Wevill, a German poet with whom Ted Hughes had a relationship, committed suicide in 1969.

@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796

3 жыл бұрын

@@martydav9475 Nicholas Hughes did have friends and colleagues (he was a professor in the School of Fisheries at the University of Alaska) in Alaska, New Zealand, and Britain who cherished him, as the online memorials attest. He never married, but did have girlfriends-the last, tragically, discovered his body at his home near Fairbanks after he hung himself in 2009. He fought a long battle with depression.

@martydav9475

3 жыл бұрын

@@lesliegoodman-malamuth9796 Thank you so much for your information. I'm glad he wasn't on his own at least and I will read those memorials. Sylvia is buried not too far from me by the way.

I suggest this podcast of 2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/c5Z6ypWMp7C1Z6g.html he was a monster

The father was for the street, Not an ideal man. She deserved better.

read abt your mum before fr 🇸🇬

My perception of romantic love completely altered by this type of titles through the times 👍

Extraordinary individuals but not an extraordinary love story.

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Where are the missing 2 journals and the poems against him in Ariel? Single with no kids, nothing affects u anymore, give it to Carole's family or Hugh's family, 500k dollars gained from your auctions, Frieda, the yellow dress why did u do that? no one buys your poems or what? Stop doing this. Do it for your stepsister Shura.

He loved her to death.

"Extraordinary love?" Wow. Didn't know Sotheby's used rage-bait titles. I guess if you take "extraordinary" literally and fold in the extraordinary abuse, extraordinary gaslighting, extraordinary professional jealousy, and all the rest, then yeah, I guess you're right, it was "extraordinary."

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The only thing extraordinary was his narcissism

He was a monster!!

..they need homes..

This isn't love, this is abuse

@radicalcartoons2766

7 ай бұрын

Symbiotic relationships.

She makes it up. The gas oven is the ultimate. Leaves her made a note on how to resusitate her and dies as she turns up late. No one elso found ted so foul. Anne Sexton was it this idiots race. But both very good.

Ted Hughes was simply terrible to women. I'm really sorry to say this, because I'm sure Freida Hughes loved her father, but she was raised by a man who had a history of being psychologically and physically abusive toward his partners.

i can't disagree Jasmine, except to say that you, just as i, do not know these people at all, and to cite evidence from artistic writings or private letters even and make a personal opinion, sidestepping the obvious position of their daughter and her quest to show their love, is not honourable and certainly not up to us. I have visited her grave, have read all her work...and Ted Hughes also...and the situation is more complex than you can imagine, BUT, I can hardly be argued that she was devoted to him, and that, her being left and betrayed is part of her ending

It’s sad to see the peanut crunching crowd muscle into the comment section with their half-baked chatter. There’s no love for the taboo, for the interior worlds, for the muddied hues which love is. They criticize a love that they’ll never be able to touch or even imagine. Sitting in front of the tv placid and rotting away safe as can be.

Extraordinary😢 love? Nobody believes this lie.

Don't be so judgemental.

The terrible truth is that most men would've left Plath for Assia. Desire is stronger than romance.

Ted Hughes was a wonderful poet when he was not too obscure. Sylvia Plath was more approachable, but a bit too subjective. All her poems were about herself.

There NO love without your maker Jesus ,ONLY lust and idolization !

Poetry is so fucking pretentious. The worst is live events. People spouting off verse after verse with ersatz enthusiasm and grandiose hand gestures and distortions of the face. Nobody cares. Musicals are a distant second. Wizard of Oz is cool though! The one about Nazi's is good too, only because the MC is so absurd. Well played.

And after her poor mother killed herself because of his treatment of her, emotional and physical abuse and the affairs, she kill’s herself (poor cow) and then 7 years later the women he left Sylvia for kills herself too! What the actual eff of a brutal bully was ted hughes? And epic one!