Ariel - Sylvia Plath - Writers Forum

lovefool · 12-20-2006, 12:36 AM

Anyone else like her? I love "Morning Song" and "Daddy". Her poetry is so refreshing. I'm picky when it comes to poetry but I love her creativity.

Quote:

Morning Song

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.

Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.

I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.

One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square

Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.

Der_Parvenu_Meister · 03-28-2007, 03:07 PM

the only poem that struck me by her so far is "Child" the last stanza is haunting to me.

salad days · 04-04-2007, 06:02 PM

She's one of my favorite poet; however, do not ever watch the movie that stars G. Paltrow. It does not do Plath justice. I adore "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus" .. I think when people hear the name Sylvia Plath they do an unjust critique of her poetry based on her death.. and automatically classifies anyone who likes her poetry as some kind of misanthrope, which is far from the truth. Anyways, I digress... I think she is an underrated poet..