Hmph! But yeah, you're right. There are probably a million things I should add there.
Sylvia Plath interests me because (and here it will get fangirlish), I've always related to her life, from childhood on. The ambition, the depression, the scholarly aspirations often sidelined by earthier passions (like men), and in so many ways the "ideal" she tried so hard to achieve -- a marriage of equals, in creativity and intellect; being a hands-on mother to her children; and writing everything she could, all while living in what seemed on the outside, at least, to be an idyllic cottage in the English countryside. She was the original Martha Stewart, if Martha was also a brilliant poet. And the way it crumbled, the demons who destroyed (both within and without) just breaks my heart. She had much more to say, I think.
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Date: 2005-01-21 03:21 pm (UTC)Sylvia Plath interests me because (and here it will get fangirlish), I've always related to her life, from childhood on. The ambition, the depression, the scholarly aspirations often sidelined by earthier passions (like men), and in so many ways the "ideal" she tried so hard to achieve -- a marriage of equals, in creativity and intellect; being a hands-on mother to her children; and writing everything she could, all while living in what seemed on the outside, at least, to be an idyllic cottage in the English countryside. She was the original Martha Stewart, if Martha was also a brilliant poet. And the way it crumbled, the demons who destroyed (both within and without) just breaks my heart. She had much more to say, I think.